They counted every penny.
Be Thrifty and spend money wisely – it’s wonderful. But sometimes for the sake of an extra penny, people begin to behave strangely. Introducing our selection of the most greedy people in history.
Of course, cheapskate in the history of mankind was much more than six. We will talk about those greedy persons that have impressed us the most. Even amazed when you find out what people will do for money!
Charlie Chaplin
Truly, if a person has a psychology of the poor, then no money will make him happy! Alas, the syndrome of the poor is inherent not only ordinary people but also the great and talented. Charles Chaplin was a very rich man, he was earning $10,000 per week (in 1916). For understanding: adjusted for inflation, in today’s world, this amount is equal to $220 000. And despite the apparent prosperity (if not wealth), he was stingy! Actor Marlon Brando has described him as a tyrant and greedy man, and not in vain. For example, he loved to have company for dinner and never tried to pay for itself. Because in a company there is always someone who will gladly pay for the celebrity dinner!
Marcus Licinius Crassus
The philosopher Plutarch said about Carlton: “He lacked the experience and the beauty of his exploits ruined they owned from the nature of the evil forces – greed and miserliness”. Marcus Licinius, perhaps the first of the rulers came up with a scheme in which people were persecuted not so much for their political views, how much… for wealth. Which after the arrest and execution passed to the Treasury (read: the personal property of Crassus). And he is the author of refined speculation: after the fires that happened in Rome permanently, he would buy up damaged homes and then rented them at exorbitant prices.
Greed proved fatal for him as Crassus was killed during the disastrous Roman military campaign, when he wanted to conquer Parthia, known for its wealth.
Pope Sixtus IV
XV century for the Vatican is the century of universal corruption and extortion. Greedy, insatiable hoarder Sixtus IV vied in wealth with the famous Florentine banking house of Medici. In the history of Sixtus IV forever branded his name with the introduction of the Inquisition in Spain. He lived to be the first major burnings of heretics in this country. Don’t forget “pious” vicar of God on Earth and your wallet. It has greatly enriched what he imposed taxes in the brothels and argued that the souls of purgatory can go to heaven only if relatives of the deceased slightly “podmazhesh”: buy indulgence for the deceased.
Getty Green
She is the only woman in our ranking, but her avarice was quite jealous uncle Scrooge! Getty green American, who in 1916 was worn by the richest women in the world. It was called the Witch of wall street, she was very influential, and in addition, was very avaricious, and the greed of her legends were told. When she married, she forced the groom to sign the document according to which he had no right to her money, but even then Getty was super rich! She always wore the same dress while it’s worn. Millionaire, it is not included in the house heating and not used the hot water. She was saving money on the soap and did not wash hands with soap and water, in addition, the laundress was ordered to wash the clothes with soap only the dirty spots, the rest – just rinse with water. She entered the Guinness Book of records as the most avaricious woman in the world!
William Henry Vanderbilt
He had inherited from his father, Cornelius Vanderbilt, $ 100 million and managed to dispose of them: turned them into $of 231.6 billion. Vanderbilt was the richest American of the nineteenth century and that is every bit as important, most influential. He controlled the largest rail network in the world and became known for his famous statement, “damn the people! I only care about their property”. Say he counted every cent-transformer infinity … and scold his son, believing that his inability to clean his ruin.
William Tweed
It is here that Hollywood’s authors blamed the images of crooks and greedy rich men. William loved money passionately and seriously. William “Boss” tweed became history of new York, bribes, kickbacks, cuts and theft of budget funds in a fantastic even by modern standards the scale. He was a land owner in new York, also in his possession were the banks, Railways and hotels. His condition in terms of value today would be about $ 8 billion. But the more he was known for his stinginess and greed. Once official, he traded positions and resolutions on the right to work in new York. His corrupt syndicate called: “Gang of Tweed”. According to rough estimates, in the period from 1865 to 1871, Tweed gang stole from the city Treasury about 200 million dollars (over 4 billion today).
He had a long and tasteful robbed the American voter, and when he came to court for their machinations, “grease” who should and got a year in prison (although the Prosecutor asked for 12 years). However, after that first arrest lucky star clearly changed the Tweed: it has begun prosecutions on other scams. He was hiding, migrated to other countries, but it has not helped: died tipster at the age of 55 from pneumonia, the prison cell of Ludlow, the construction of which has profited well at the time.
