In 1923, who was:
 1. President of the largest steel company?
 2. President of the largest gas company?
 3. President of the New York Stock Exchange?
 4. Greatest wheat speculator?
 5. President of the Bank of International Settlement?
 6. Great Bear of Wall Street? These men were considered some of the world’s most
 successful of their day.  Now, 80 years later, the
 history book asks us, if we know what ultimately
 became of them.

 The answers:
 1. The president of the largest steel company, Charles
 Schwab, died a pauper.
 2. The president of the largest gas company, Edward
 Hopson, went insane.
 3. The president of the NYSE, Richard Whitney, was
 released from prison to die at home.
 4. The greatest wheat speculator, Arthur Cooger, died
 abroad, penniless.
 5. The president of the Bank of International
 Settlement, shot himself.
 6. The Great Bear of Wall Street, Cosabee Livermore,
 also committed suicide.

 However, in that same year, 1923, the PGA Champion,
 avid hunter and fisherman, and the winner of the most
 important golf tournament, the US
 Open, was Gene Sarazen.

 What became of him?

 He hunted until he was 90.  He played golf until he
 was 92, and he went fishing when he was 94.  He died
 in 1999 at the age of 95.  He was financially secure
 at the time of his death.

 The moral:
 Screw work.  Golf, hunt, and fish