Ma Yun: Zhao Benshan said that when people die, money is still there, which is the greatest sorrow. You haven't spent it in this life, you have earned it for nothing, but how much can you spend? One bed, three meals, how many clothes can you wear? Someone likes watches, I haven't worn a watch in over 30 years, these things don't make sense.
Our wealth is not ours, it is the trust of society in us, we must spend it, but we must spend it well. If we are like local tyrants, it is meaningless, the more society trusts us, the better our money is spent, and it is worth it. So, I now enjoy the pleasure of wealth, saying that we earn money in the first half of our lives, and we spend money in the second half of our lives, but it is much harder to spend money than to earn money.
Unlike other rich people, Ma Yun is actually one of the entrepreneurs who openly talk about the most wealth in addition to Cao Dewang, and the same thing is that they all believe that the wealth they have is given by the society, and even if they have to spend it, they must spend it well in order to be worthy of the trust of the people in the society.
These words were said by Ma Yun at the board of directors of the Ma Yun Public Welfare Foundation, which actually expounded Ma Yun's understanding and attitude towards wealth, especially when he has so much wealth, how to spend money well, in the right place, and in the value of spending, which is something that Ma Yun feels is more difficult.
If we put our identity in the position of Jack Ma, we will actually have the same confusion, how to spend so much money? Do you donate it, or do you leave it to future generations? How should I donate it? Is it to build schools or alleviate poverty, to help basic education or higher education? Wait a minute.
In this process, to make every penny used as much as possible, it is necessary to control operating costs, to prevent corruption during the period, to conduct regular project visits, etc., every public welfare is not as simple as donations, donations and departures.
This is the reason why Jack Ma said that it is more difficult to spend money than to make money. The Jack Ma Charity Foundation is a public welfare organization initiated and donated by Jack Ma himself, which chooses to focus on education, environmental protection, medical care and other fields, and has set up and implemented the "Rural Education Program", "Jack Ma Education Fund", "Xixi Wetland Water Resources Research and Protection Program", "New Coronavirus Prevention and Control Funding Program" and other funding projects in the fields of education, environmental protection and medical care.
And every time the country and various places encounter a major disaster, the Jack Ma Public Welfare Foundation will donate funds or materials, such as setting up a fund with 100 million yuan during the epidemic, donating 50 million yuan for the heavy rain in Henan, donating 10 million yuan for the Shanxi flood, etc., and use the money in the places where it is urgently needed, which is the real role and value of wealth.
For Ma Yun, he doesn't have to worry about making money for a long time, and the next few decades may be thinking about how to settle the hundreds of billions of wealth he has, and he will live up to the trust of the society, spend the money well, and the society will get better if it is fed!