Tan Kah Kee s thrifty memorabilia, what is Tan Kah Kee s thrifty ?

Mr. Tan Kah Kee, a well-known patriotic overseas Chinese businessman, has a huge family fortune and is very wealthy. In the fifties, he donated hundreds of millions of yuan to the education of the motherland, and in addition, in the thirties and forties, he also raised a large amount of money for the war of resistance. However, he has always been very simple in life, even to the point that it is difficult for others to understand.

In earlier years, power to power plants was stopped at 10 p.m. Mr. Tan Kah Kee continued to work by lighting candles, and the one he used to make the candlestick was a broken porcelain cup that he had picked up. He was advised to buy a candlestick, but he refused.

He had an umbrella that had been in use for 20 years by the time of his death. After a long time, the umbrella cloth was tattered, so he asked his niece and daughter-in-law to sew it for him. Later, he couldn't sew it anymore, so he asked his niece and daughter-in-law to buy a piece of cloth to replace the old rotten umbrella cloth.

He often said: "Tens of millions of dollars of money must be spent." If you shouldn't use it, you can't waste a penny.

After listening to the above story of Mr. Tan Kah Kee, I believe you will definitely understand the truth. Thrift is a virtue praised and praised by the Chinese nation, which needs to be advocated in the arduous years of material poverty, and should not be forgotten when the economy is developed and life is rich. Let's all keep in mind this wise saying:

There will always be days and no days, and don't take no time as a time. ”

Chen Jiageng is not a celebrity, and he has a set of things.

Spend tens of millions first, and then save a penny. It's really economical However, his lifetime saving is not enough for him to spend once.

But after all, it's a celebrity, and the average person can't understand what he's thinking 0 )

Tan Kah Kee invested all the money he had saved in the construction of the school.

In the early 50s of the 20th century, the famous patriotic overseas Chinese leader Chen Jiageng was in his office and bedroom in Xiamen, with a wooden bed hanging with a yellowed and patched mosquito net; a wooden table with an upside-down broken porcelain bowl on top of it, on which stood half a candle; Two broken sofas are not in pairs, one is newly repaired and the other is old; A dilapidated wooden coffee table is placed on the **. Receiving the ** of the mayor of Shanghai at the time, in his office, it was just that there was an extra pound of sugar on the porcelain plate on the coffee table, and afterwards he criticized his subordinates, "Why do you buy so much?" The chief can taste one or two at most, and two taels of candy will be enough to buy it."

Hearing this, he once said with emotion: "Who is the richest in the Chinese world today? Mr. Tan Kah Kee! But the richest overseas Chinese businessman entertained our ** mayor with a pound of candy! Doesn't this make us Communists think deeply? ”

Why are the richest overseas Chinese businessmen so "frugal"? Chen Kah Kee's own words are the answer: "What Kah Kee wants in his life:

I save more than one article, that is, I save more than one article for my country, accumulate a lot, and use it to study, this is my original intention. "The money that should be spent in the career must be spent, and the money that should be saved in life must also be saved." "It turned out that Tan Kah Kee saved money to promote education and educate people, and to support revolution and construction.

Chen Jiageng's "frugality" is easily reminiscent of the spirit of Yan'an. In fact, the "frugality" manifested in Chen Jiageng has more profound meaning than the spirit of Yan'an. Said:

When we were in Yan'an, we had nothing and wanted to be corrupted? There are no conditions; As for Mr. Tan Kah Kee, he is a contemporary overseas Chinese billionaire, and he can afford to run a university with his own money, but what about himself? ......These words show that when you were in Yan'an, there were no conditions for corruption, and you couldn't be corrupted if you wanted to, and you couldn't even survive without hard work.

And Chen Jiageng has money and the conditions for corruption exist, but he is so "thrifty", isn't his ideological realm higher?

As the richest man at that time, Tan Kah Kee was still so "frugal", not because he was an ascetic, but because he had China's revolution and construction in his heart and gave the money he saved. Tan Kah Kee's "frugality" embodies the fine traditions of the Chinese nation. We adhere to this fine tradition, not only because we are still in the stage of learning and starting a business, but even if we develop in the future, we should still carry forward this tradition.