He Failed in Dozens of Businesses. He Became a Millionaire. Risked His Life. Spent Every Penny...
 

Why did he do it?

He spent something 4 MILLION GERMAN MARKS keeping his Jews out of the death camps - an enormous sum of money for those times.
In 1944 he was a very wealthy man, a multimillionaire.
He could have taken the money and gone to Switzerland.
He could have bought Beverly Hills.
He ended by spending his last penny and risking his life to save his 1300 jews.
And he risked his life to save some of them in Auschwitz.

He managed to do it using the very same business talents that made him a fortune during the war.

It was his Samaritan Business Descision.

Oscar Schindler does not LOOK like a guardian angel.

If he was alive today he probably would seek his next fortune in the Internet gold mines.

He drank.
He wore big Nazi-badges ...
He liked women.
He bribed.
But he bribed for a good purpose.

He was a gambler, who loved living on the edge.
He was an adventurer.
He was like an actor who always wanted to be center stage.
He loved outsmarting the SS.
He was an alcoholic and a shameless womanizer of the worst sort.
He left his wife.

He used the corrupt ways, creativity and ingenuity against the monster machine dedicated to death.

He worked the system extraordinarily well.

If he were not this kind of person he probably wouldn't have succeeded.

Whatever it took to save a life he did.

His actions in those circumstances were absolutely extraordinary.

He had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need.
He was affable, kind, extremely generous and charitable, but at the same time, NOT MATURE at all.

Why? What prompted Schindler to act as he did, at tremendous risk to himself ?

His answer: 'I was a Nazi, and I believed that the Germans were doing wrong ... when they started killing innocent people - and it didn't mean anything to me that they were Jewish, to me they were just human beings, menschen - I decided I am going to work against them and I am going TO SAVE AS MANY AS I CAN'.
"I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism.
I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed.
I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it.
Really, nothing more."

Oscar Schindler was isolated and rejected by his citizens after World War II.
He was persecuted, he was sworn at on the streets, and stones were thrown at him.

He was an irritating reminder to everyone that it had after all been possible to do something against the Nazis.
It was said that he was their bad conscience - the conscience of all those who had known something but done nothing.

He will remain an irritating reminder to businessmen who make their lifestyles their gods.

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Testimonials:

"I would not be alive today if it wasn't for Oscar Schindler.
TO US HE WAS OUR GOD, OUR FATHER, OUR PROTECTOR."

"I thank God for Oscar Schindler. If not for him, I would not be here and not have any family."

A Schindler Jew, Murray Pantirer, set up a construction firm after the war and has by now dedicated 25 STREETS in New Jersey to Oscar Schindler's memory.

"TO ME HE WAS AN ANGEL. Because of him I was treated like a human being. And because of him I survived."

(One day 300 Schindler-women were routed on a train to Auschwitz by a mistake.)
"What people don't understand about Oscar is the power of the man, his strength, his determination. Everything he did he did to save the Jews. Can you imagine what power it took for him to pull out from Auschwitz 300 people?"
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No matter how many businesses Schindler failed in, he was a SUCCESS in life ..

thankyou....
 

for reminding me what making money is
really all about...in the end it's about
your CHARACTER...

"character is that which can do without success"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson,Uncollected lectures-

> Why did he do it?

> He spent something 4 MILLION GERMAN MARKS
> keeping his Jews out of the death camps - an
> enormous sum of money for those times.
> In 1944 he was a very wealthy man, a
> multimillionaire.
> He could have taken the money and gone to
> Switzerland.
> He could have bought Beverly Hills.
> He ended by spending his last penny and
> risking his life to save his 1300 jews.
> And he risked his life to save some of them
> in Auschwitz.

> He managed to do it using the very same
> business talents that made him a fortune
> during the war.

> It was his Samaritan Business Descision.

> Oscar Schindler does not LOOK like a
> guardian angel.

> If he was alive today he probably would seek
> his next fortune in the Internet gold mines.

> He drank.
> He wore big Nazi-badges ...
> He liked women.
> He bribed.
> But he bribed for a good purpose.

> He was a gambler, who loved living on the
> edge.
> He was an adventurer.
> He was like an actor who always wanted to be
> center stage.
> He loved outsmarting the SS.
> He was an alcoholic and a shameless
> womanizer of the worst sort.
> He left his wife.

> He used the corrupt ways, creativity and
> ingenuity against the monster machine
> dedicated to death.

> He worked the system extraordinarily well.

> If he were not this kind of person he
> probably wouldn't have succeeded.

> Whatever it took to save a life he did.

> His actions in those circumstances were
> absolutely extraordinary.

> He had a big heart and was always ready to
> help whoever was in need.
> He was affable, kind, extremely generous and
> charitable, but at the same time, NOT MATURE
> at all.

> Why? What prompted Schindler to act as he
> did, at tremendous risk to himself ?

> His answer: 'I was a Nazi, and I believed
> that the Germans were doing wrong ... when
> they started killing innocent people - and
> it didn't mean anything to me that they were
> Jewish, to me they were just human beings,
> menschen - I decided I am going to work
> against them and I am going TO SAVE AS MANY
> AS I CAN'.
> "I hated the brutality, the sadism, and
> the insanity of Nazism.
> I just couldn't stand by and see people
> destroyed.
> I did what I could, what I had to do, what
> my conscience told me I must do. That's all
> there is to it.
> Really, nothing more."

> Oscar Schindler was isolated and rejected by
> his citizens after World War II.
> He was persecuted, he was sworn at on the
> streets, and stones were thrown at him.

> He was an irritating reminder to everyone
> that it had after all been possible to do
> something against the Nazis.
> It was said that he was their bad conscience
> - the conscience of all those who had known
> something but done nothing.

> He will remain an irritating reminder to
> businessmen who make their lifestyles their
> gods.

> ------------------------
> Testimonials:

> "I would not be alive today if it
> wasn't for Oscar Schindler.
> TO US HE WAS OUR GOD, OUR FATHER, OUR
> PROTECTOR."

> "I thank God for Oscar Schindler. If
> not for him, I would not be here and not
> have any family."

> A Schindler Jew, Murray Pantirer, set up a
> construction firm after the war and has by
> now dedicated 25 STREETS in New Jersey to
> Oscar Schindler's memory.

> "TO ME HE WAS AN ANGEL. Because of him
> I was treated like a human being. And
> because of him I survived."

> (One day 300 Schindler-women were routed on
> a train to Auschwitz by a mistake.)
> "What people don't understand about
> Oscar is the power of the man, his strength,
> his determination. Everything he did he did
> to save the Jews. Can you imagine what power
> it took for him to pull out from Auschwitz
> 300 people?"
> -----------------------------

> No matter how many businesses Schindler
> failed in, he was a SUCCESS in life ..