The Greatest Man who ever lived.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, according to perhaps the greatest american poet, Carl Sandburg.

5 MEN TO IMITATE

1. John Davison Rockefeller:  (1839-1937; Lived 98 years)  Richest Man in the World in the latter part of the 19th Century and in the first part of the 20th Century.  Said to be the richest man of all time. Worth $us 1 billion in 1913; equal to 2% of U.S. GDP then.

2. Simon I. Patiño:  (1863-1947; Lived 84 years)  Largest Fortune on Earth in 1941. 

3. Jean Paul Getty:  (1892-1976; Lived 83 years)  Richest Man in the World 1956 - 1976.  Worth $us 4 billion in 1956.

4. Samuel Walton:  (1918-1992; Lived 74 years)  Richest Man in the World 1985 - 1992. Worth $us 100 billion in 1992.

5. Warren Buffett:  (1930-      ; Now age 78)  Presently Richest Man in the World.  In 2007, worth $us 60 billion.

How did Warren Buffett buy up 8% of Coca Cola...

Well for days on in for months and months, he and Charlie Munger in the 80's bought one third of the volume of all Coca Cola stocks that were being traded each day, they spent more than a billion dollars doing this during those long months - that's how they did it!

"Where do we go from here?"

One of Winston Churchill's most famous lines, said, once World War II was won.

Albert Einstein was a Genius not a Polymath

Upon reading more of polymath men, it seems many of them were not geniuses, like EINSTEIN was, since he was a specialist in his subject area, and polymath men are not speicalists but generalists.  Thus, does that make a specialist, like Einstein who was a genius, superior in mind than other polymaths like Da Vinci or Jefferson or Franklin?

A Polymath Man is a Universal Man.

He is a man who has broad intellectual interests:  He is accomplished in areas of both the arts and the sciences, everything from how to gain weight to how to take care of legal work without being a lawyer.

"A man who can do all things if he will." Leon Battista Alberti (1407-1472).

Thomas Henry Huxley: To be a Polymath:

KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING ABOUT SOMETHING