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

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.

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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 ..