http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2008/05/19/the-homeless-billionaire/
Meet Nicholas Berggruen, a homeless billionaire. You read that right. Nicholas is worth billions but doesn’t even own a home (he stays in hotels) because he’s lost all interest in acquiring things:
After making his billions, Mr. Berggruen, 46, lost interest in acquiring things: They didn’t satisfy him, and in fact had become something of a burden. So he started paring down his material life, selling off his condo in New York, his mansion in Florida and his only car. He hatched plans to leave his fortune to charity and his art collection to a new museum in Berlin.
For him, wealth is about lasting impact, not stuff.
“Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world,” he told me. “But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal. Whatever I own is temporary, since we’re only here for a short period of time. It’s what we do and produce, it’s our actions, that will last forever. That’s real value.”
When I pressed him on why he no longer got much enjoyment from acquiring more “things,” he said this: “First, I don’t need it. Secondly, maybe in a bizarre kind of way, I don’t want to be dependent on it or have the responsibility. I don’t get that much enjoyment out of saying ‘I own it.’ ”
Nicholas Berggruen 是一个亿万富翁，但是却没有一个属于自己的家，而是住在酒店里。对他而言，已经丧失了一切获取物质的兴趣。
在成为亿万富翁之后，46岁的Berggruen先生觉得物质不但不能吸引他，反而成为一种负担。所以他卖了自己的车子房子，并且计划将财富捐赠给慈善团体，那些艺术收藏赠与柏林一所新建的博物馆。
对他而言，财富是持久的影响，而不是拥有很多东西。
“每个人都是不同，并且我们是生活在一个物质世界，但是对我而言，占有物质不是那有趣。生活在一个豪华的环境中，向别人和我自己展现我的富有是毫无吸引力的。我所拥有的一切都是暂时的，因为我们都是过客。我们能够做的，就是我们的行动，那将是永恒的，那才是真正的价值。”
当提到为什么他不再希望拥有物质而获得享受是，他指出，“首先，我不需要他，再次，可能是一种奇怪的想法，我不想依赖物质或者对物质有责任。我丝毫不想从说“我拥有它”而获得很多享受。
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这就是tmd高人的境界！我所欣赏的理想主义者，这年头，这样大哥没有几个了。
我觉得这位大哥看着九位数的存款时，突然之间大彻大悟。而且是彻底的悟到了，就和佛教的涅槃一样，以修行达到最高的理想境界！
我总是在想如果我有亿万资产，我承认会有无数的奢华，糜烂的想法出来，每个人都一样，但是等到一切都成过去，钱却成了一个数字，而且会让我们再一次为之而堕落的东西。
那么你呢，当你拥有亿万资产时，你会怎么样？
