When people think of the super-rich, they may think of large villas, luxury cars, and living a luxurious life that is unimaginable to ordinary people.
But in India, there is a local tycoon, who is rich in money, but he lives more frugally than ordinary people, and even says that he is extremely picky. Although he sounds demeaning to him, he has another, even louder name — "Asia's First Good Man." He has donated a total of $143 billion to educational philanthropy.
Achim has spent his life doing charity
When the new crown epidemic broke out in India in 2020, Muksh, the richest man in India, quickly transferred tens of billions of assets out of India, and fled abroad with his wife and children to escape the epidemic, but the second richest man in India, Achim, stayed behind and donated a large amount of money to improve the living conditions of Indians.
Achim's acts of kindness are internationally renowned. In order to make India more professionals, he founded the Achim Foundation and two Achim Universities, covering almost 90% of the university's expenses.
Over the years, Achim has founded nearly 300,000 schools in India, bringing countless children back into the classroom. He is fundamentally committed to improving education in India.
In order to develop the country's education cause, he promised that for every dollar of profits made by the company, 67% of it would be given back to the society.
In 2019, in order to help the poor and out-of-school college students, Achim directly donated shares in the company, with a total value of tens of billions of dollars. This allowed him to fall directly from the rich ranks by a large margin, but he did not care about these false names. He called on more people to pay attention to the lives of the grassroots people in India, so that education can change the people's thinking and thus completely change India.
According to incomplete statistics, Achim's total donations in this lifetime have reached 143 billion US dollars, and the single donation is as high as 7.5 billion US dollars. It's a number that no one else can imagine.
The Bill Gates and Buffett jointly launched a plan to spend at least 50% of their wealth on philanthropy, and Achim was the first asian billionaire to sign it.
Achim who slammed the door
Achim is crazy about donating money in education, but he is an extremely critical person in life. He is the leading leader in India's IT industry, owning a company of over 20,000 people. But compared to the welfare of other large companies, the employees of Achim Company are very pitiful.
The normal leadership level will be equipped with the corresponding administrative clerks and secretaries to help the manager deal with daily chores, but Achim's company does not have this treatment, he requires that all employees must do their own work, up to the company's business, down to the cleaning, are the responsibility of the employees themselves.
And the company of so many people does not even equip the parking lot, if the employee drives to work, can only go to the nearby parking lot to spend money on parking, parking fees can not be reimbursed. The company also has a strange rule, that is, even the toilet paper is also limited, everyone has a fixed amount of paper every month, more than the company will no longer provide, if you find that you exceed the standard at the convenience of the time, you can only ask for more blessings.
Employees are complaining about Achim's door slamming, and even circulating such a legend. Previously, an employee was working overtime at the company late at night, and he was ready to turn off the lights and go home. Suddenly saw a black shadow in the corner, which frightened the employees, and just about to call the police, they found that it was their boss Achim. As for why he came over, it was because he was worried that the employees would forget to turn off the lights and would incur excess electricity bills, so he came from home to check it out.
The employees thoroughly appreciated Achim's miserliness, but their hearts were balanced.
Because Achim's own daily life is very frugal, it is not at all obvious that he is a rich man, he does not enjoy life with great luxury, but lives more ordinary than the average person. Achim's office was very simple, with only an old desk and a big-headed computer that had been obsolete for an unknown number of years.
His car was a worn-out classic car that probably didn't even look up to his employees, but Achim had been using it for years, and he probably wouldn't have changed it until it was completely scrapped. But even if he had a car, in order to save on fuel, he walked to work every day or took a free bus. Sometimes when he goes to another company to talk about business, when the distance is too far and there is no bus, he will choose a tricycle with a very cheap price, and he must bargain until he accepts the price before getting on the bus.
It's hard to imagine a rich man in a suit in a messy street, fiercely competing with a tricycle driver for a price, but that's Achim's daily routine of saving money. In terms of eating, Achim did not ask too much. He usually eats working meals with employees in the company, there is no big fish and meat, it is simple toast and the like, every day, never complains, and does not think about improving his own food.
When traveling, you must only take the cheapest civil aviation, the hotel must be shopping around, pick the cheapest three-star hotel to stay. I heard that he would also bring his own washing powder and wash his own clothes by hand. It's about saving a few bucks of machine wash money.
Not just the employees and himself, but he did the same for his family. India's richest man built a 27-story mansion to house himself, with hundreds of servants serving his family of four. The wife and children are even more spoiled. Achim was really a heaven and an earth compared to him.
His wife has not bought a few decent pieces of jewelry for so many years, and he feels that this money is not worth it, or it is better to save it. Even if his children wanted to buy a car and a house, he also refused. But his family didn't complain too much about him, and they could understand Achim's ambitions.
He not only strives to make money, but also relies on the little bit of savings to help more people in need. Such a kind act is really admirable. For his title of the first good, many people agree from the heart.
Achim's history
The IT company founded by Achim, Wipro Company, is on a par with the world-renowned enterprises Microsoft and Sony. Achim was not born in the IT industry, he started his career from a small workshop that processed edible oil.
Achim was born into an ordinary family in India, where the situation was turbulent, and many people were displaced and starved to death on the streets. Achim's father ran a cooking oil workshop, although not a rich and noble family, but at least he did not worry about food and clothing, compared with the poor family is already very good.
In Achim's childhood, he saw too many human tragedies. Too many peers and even young children are willing to steal and rob in order to make a living, in order to have a bite to eat, and they embark on the road of crime at a young age. There are also many people who die for a little profit.
Achim saw that although he was only an underage child at that time, he made a vow to change the fate of these poor people in India.
While at Achim's university years, his father died of illness, and as the eldest, he had to drop out of school and return home to inherit the family business. At that time, through my father's efforts, the family's original small workshop had expanded several times to become a large factory worth about $2 million.
Although Achim had no previous experience in business, he took on this heavy responsibility without hesitation and began his own expansion and reform.
He first introduced talents, allowing him to manage the company autonomously, no longer stuck to the model of the family factory of the past. There was also a new development in the product, and they began to try to enter the soap market. Soon, the soap produced by Achim became very popular in the market, sales soared, and the company doubled its profits in a short period of time, and since then embarked on this path of diversification.
Around 1970, western information technology developed rapidly, and many Western countries embarked on the information age. However, India's backward development in information technology has been put together by THE American company IBM. They sold outdated and obsolete electronics to India, resulting in a flood of cheap and low-quality products in the Indian domestic market.
In 1977, in order to improve the situation, the Indian government announced that the US IBM business in India would be completely stopped, which undoubtedly provided a good environment for the development of the IT industry in the country.
Achim soon discovered the business opportunity, and he reacted quickly, buying the Cincinnati microprocessor company at a very cheap price and starting to produce electronic instruments on his own. Through the company's unique sales model and perfect after-sales service, it has quickly won a broad market. Two years later, he also began to manufacture local computers and successfully sold them.
For the next two decades, Archim shifted all his focus to computing. He seized the opportunity of the times and bravely moved forward, not only allowing him to harvest huge wealth, but also becoming the No.1 in the Indian IT industry, known as the king of computers.
Achim's life is legendary. He grew from an ordinary indian family to an IT king, and although he was at the top of the rich list, he lived an ordinary life. Not willing to spend money for themselves and their families but proudly donating money to help the poor, such a broad mind and courage is also rarely possessed.
Chinese good man Cao Dewang
Also in China, there is such an entrepreneur and philanthropist with a heart for the world, he is the glass king Cao Dewang. In less than 30 years, Cao Dewang has donated a total of 22 billion yuan and established Fuyao University of Science and Technology in Fujian, whose purpose is to study the relatively weak fields of science and engineering in China and cultivate more relevant talents for the country. The construction of the university is very strict, each major is equipped with a standard laboratory, costing nearly 10 billion yuan, and will be directly handed over to the state after completion.
Cao Dewang's good deeds won people's respect and was called China's first good. But he modestly said that doing charity is not the patent of the rich, and charity is not just donating money, his ultimate purpose is to build a harmonious and stable society. And he believes that the person who should be called China's first good should be Mr. Yuan Longping, such a pattern and cognition is difficult for many people to reach.
Cao Dewang started with automotive glass, from a small factory that lost money every year to an international factory with hundreds of millions of exports today, all the way, Cao Dewang also made great efforts.
In the 1980s, in order to make Chinese his own automotive glass, Cao Dewang borrowed one million yuan to import the most advanced production equipment from Finland, hired technical talents with high salaries, and immersed himself in research day and night, and finally succeeded, thus changing the situation that China's automotive glass market was 100% dependent on imports. Not only that, because of the relatively low price of Fuyao Glass, it has defeated other competitors in the Chinese market and is selling well overseas. Let a small factory gradually develop to today's scale.
Cao Dewang's pursuit of glass quality is the ultimate, every year he invests in the research of new glass, is an astronomical number, at present, Fuyao Group has developed HUD head-up display glass, water-repellent glass, thermal insulation glass, soundproof glass, heated glass, embedded data acquisition chip unmanned car glass and so on with high technical content of special glass.
He has been dealing with automotive glass all his life, even if the finance and real estate of the fire that year, he was completely uninvolved, and he even said, "If it is not the money earned through glass, I don't want a penny." ”
In terms of taxation, Cao Dewang was also unashamed, when Cao Dewang should have expelled several people who did not obey discipline, and was falsely accused of tax evasion and tax evasion, when the people in the tax bureau went to check the accounts, they found that Cao Dewang himself miscalculated the account book, paid more taxes, and the tax bureau also had to give Fuyao a tax refund.
How can such a pragmatic and clean, discipline-abiding, law-abiding entrepreneur not be admired.