Pertamax gan, nice share pak.. Great, bukan krn dia nyimpen stock nya sih, tp dari attitude nya. Walau bisa hidup kaya , dia memilih hidup sederhana.. Seandainya bapak2 yg di DPR sana bisa mencontoh sekertaris ini [?]
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Marcus <rxbk1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > How a Secretary Made and Gave Away $7 Million > by Robert Frank > Monday, March 8, 2010 > > She lived in a tiny one-bedroom cottage in Lake Forest, Ill. > > She bought her clothes at rummage sales, didn't own a car and worked most > of her life as a secretary for a pharmaceutical company. > Yet after her death at age 100, Grace Groner left Lake Forest College a > gift of $7 million to be used for scholarships. The money came from three > shares of stock she bought -- and held on to -- in 1935. > "She did not have the (material) needs that other people have," William > Marlatt, her attorney and longtime friend told the Chicago Tribune. "She > could have lived in any house in Lake Forest but she chose not to....*She > enjoyed other people, and every friend she had was a friend for who she was. > They weren't friends for what she had." > *Ms. Groner's story might seem like a classic Millionaire Next Door fairy > tale -- the thrifty, conservative, hard-working saver who hoards pennies > over a lifetime to accumulate vast wealth. And that is certainly part of the > story. Aside from occasional trips, Ms. Groner was rigorously frugal due to > her Depression-era upbringing. (Not having a husband or children may have > also helped her savings rate.) > > Yet the way Ms. Groner garnered her wealth was, in fact, more like one big, > lucky gamble than a lifetime of scrimping and saving. > Ms. Groner worked for 43 years as a secretary for Abbott Laboratories. In > 1935, she bought three specially issued shares of Abbott for $180. She never > sold a share, even after repeated stock splits. She also kept reinvesting > the dividends. By the time of her death, she owned more than 100,000 shares > valued at about $7 million. > As David Roeder of the Chicago Sun-Times points out: "It is a grave error > to put your nest egg behind a single company, and it is worse when the > company is your employer. Groner had a winner, but others have done this > with Enron, General Motors or Bear Stearns." > The all-in-one basket strategy was, of course, a grave error for employees > of Enron and others. And financial advisers love to herald diversification, > which didn't turn out so well for many investors during the financial > crisis. > But Ms. Groner's story shows that savings alone probably doesn't get you to > $7 million. It seems that loading up on a one single investment and getting > tremendously lucky over a long period of time can get you there. But don't > count on it. > > >
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