RIP Taiwan's Evergreen Group Chang Yung Fa

Ok I am quite late to post this, but here's my tribute to Chang Yung Fa, a man whom I deeply respect and look up to.

Chang Yung Fa is Taiwan's Evergreen Group founder. The group consist of EVA Air, Evergreen line shipping, Evergreen International Hotels, Evergreen Steel Corp..etc.

He is a great inspiration.

1. Brilliance in business
He started out with only 1 ship in 1968 and was born in humble family. Now, it has about 178 container ships. The evergreen group has about 27,000 employees with more than 220 offices worldwide.

2. Advocator of character values
From Forbes
"Chang Yung-Fa’s mission is nothing less than to “reorganize” social values.
He started a cartoon illustrated magazine, Morals, that seek to uplift people's sense of morality in Taiwan and around the world. “If, for every 10,000 people, one is influenced in a positive way, that’s worth it,” he says"

3. Philanthropist
From Forbes
"Chang started the foundation in 1985; it has spent a cumulative $130 million over the years. Today its staff of 149 spends much of its time on typical charity work, such as awarding scholarships and delivering disaster aid; every year residents of some 9,000 homes hit by natural disasters in Asia receive help. "
Being a billionaire, he has pledged to give away all of his assets to charity.

Wow..

He's some advice from the Billionaire for takeaway:

 

The most important point to me, translated:

Chang yung Fa is a believer of karma. He says
"One should do good deeds and accumulate good merits when alive."
Totally agree. I always believe that if you can (actually I think if you reading this, most probably you can :p), do spare a penny to the needy. Maybe it can only help one person, but to that person, it means the world to them. Those living in poverty really have very tough and difficult life.. your good deed will make their life much brighter. :)