Extract from Google :
"Einstein once 'tipped' a man with his key to happiness – it just sold for $1.5M.
In 1922, Einstein was in Japan for a lecture tour after he had received his Nobel Prize. He received a courier and as per the legend, the physicist did not have any money to pay as a tip to the courier boy so he gave him the notes and told him that if he would be lucky, the notes would become valuable.
In the notes, the great scientist had written that achieving a long-dreamt-of goal did not necessarily guarantee happiness. The note has been written on the stationery of the Imperial Hotel Tokyo, the place where the physicist was staying at that time.
"A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it," is the English translation of the note that has originally been written in German.
At the same time, he had written another note as well which reads: "Where there's a will, there's a way." This note sold for $240,000. The notes finally landed up with the nephew of the courier boy who sold them at the auction. The buyer of the notes has chosen to remain anonymous although it has been reported that the individual belongs from Europe."
A sound advice.
Settled down at VV after return from a week-long stay at Fatehpur.
Quotable Quotes :"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." John W. Gardner
"Einstein once 'tipped' a man with his key to happiness – it just sold for $1.5M.
In 1922, Einstein was in Japan for a lecture tour after he had received his Nobel Prize. He received a courier and as per the legend, the physicist did not have any money to pay as a tip to the courier boy so he gave him the notes and told him that if he would be lucky, the notes would become valuable.
In the notes, the great scientist had written that achieving a long-dreamt-of goal did not necessarily guarantee happiness. The note has been written on the stationery of the Imperial Hotel Tokyo, the place where the physicist was staying at that time.
"A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it," is the English translation of the note that has originally been written in German.
At the same time, he had written another note as well which reads: "Where there's a will, there's a way." This note sold for $240,000. The notes finally landed up with the nephew of the courier boy who sold them at the auction. The buyer of the notes has chosen to remain anonymous although it has been reported that the individual belongs from Europe."
A sound advice.
Settled down at VV after return from a week-long stay at Fatehpur.
Quotable Quotes :"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." John W. Gardner
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