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1971年的一个傍晚,建筑工程界巨子约瑟夫·雅各布斯和妻子在加州帕萨迪纳的家中吃晚饭,他们就巨额财产将来如何处理的问题,与3个刚刚20出头的女儿作了严肃谈话。这位白手起家的亿万富翁对3个女儿说:“因为我们非常爱你们,所以决定不留很多钱给你们。”他决定把大部分遗产捐给慈善事业,只给她们每个人留下自己公司价值100万美元的股份,而这只占他全部财产的很小一部分。雅各布斯是黎巴嫩穷苦移民的儿子,他说:
One evening in 1971, construction engineering giants Joseph Jacobs and his wife had dinner at their home in Pasadena, Calif. They were serious about how to deal with huge sums of money in the future, with three daughters just 20, conversation. The self-made billionaire said to three daughters: “Because we love you so much, we decided not to give you a lot of money.” He decided to donate most of his legacy to charity, leaving only theirs to each of them A $ 1 million stake, which accounts for only a tiny fraction of all his property. Jacobs, the son of a poor immigrant in Lebanon, said: