His Great Success Was Giving.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17886, 5 December 1929, Page 14

His Great Success Was Giving.

The newspapers have said a great deal about the successful business career of the late Mr Bernhard Baron, the tobacco magnate, but it is his great charitable actions and his simplicity of life which have impressed the public. Here are a few of his sayings, which speak for themselves :—■ “I give money away because I have made up my mind that money is not worth having as such.’’ “I should like to help everyone. But as I can’t do that, I do tho next best thing, and give to tho hospitals and other places.’’ “The way to make a fortune is by hard work and by never spending as much aa you can afford to spend.’’ “Bo human in business.” “It is a rich man’s duty to give.” “My greatest' happiness is knowing that I am helping a child.” "I have found that the greatest of all truths is that it is better to give than to receive.” “There is nothing in making money. What is tho fun in piling up money? To five is the best thing of all—and it would ring me as much happiness if I were a poor man and could only give sixpence.” “If every man with money did his little bit, as I am trying to do, England would be a far happier place.” “Charity has no religion. Charity knows no nationality. It springs from something higher than ourselves. I have made tons of money, but what good is it to me? lam a poor lonely widower. I am still making plenty of money. I tell you there is nothing in it.” “But to give, in some way which I cannot explain to you at all, I get the greatest joy out of that. When I see a sick man in hospital getting better I know that I have given towards making him better, then that ‘gets me.’ I feel a personal interest in that man. It seems to mo that he is. my brother.” Mr Edward Baron, tho grandson, told an “Evening News” correspondent that the policy of kindly interest in the employees of the famous tobacco works and the assistance to the poor and. charity in general would be carried on’ just as it was under his father’s regime. “That policy was one of the greatest interests of his life and we must carry i,t on,” he declared.