Oprah Winfrey: Wealth Is 'A Good Thing'

Comment from Sean Conway, The Millionaire’s Plan:

Oprah Winfrey is an extraordinary woman who overcame an under-priveleged childhood to grow to be one of the world’s richest women.

This brief article below highlights that she believes making money and being rich is a good thing and that she has no values clash with being rich.

The telling comment, and something we can all learn from is when she says..
“I do not know how me being destitute is going to help them.”

She feels having money enables her to contribute to benevolent projects all over the world. If she wasn’t wealthy, if she didn’t have a large cash flow, she could do this.

Read below for more.

Regards
Sean Conway

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Oprah Winfrey: Wealth Is 'A Good Thing'
TUESDAY APRIL 11, 2006
By Stephen M. Silverman with Susan Mandel


Oprah Winfrey is a rich woman – and she's got no problem with that.

Speaking in Baltimore on Monday at a fundraiser for Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, Winfrey told the audience, "I have lots of things, like all these Manolo Blahniks. I have all that and I think it's great. I'm not one of those people like, 'Well, we must renounce ourselves.' No, I have a closet full of shoes and it's a good thing."

Winfrey, 52, who is reportedly worth more than $1 billion, said she doesn't feel guilty about her wealth. "I was coming back from Africa on one of my trips," she said. "I had taken one of my wealthy friends with me. She said, 'Don't you just feel guilty? Don't you just feel terrible?' I said, 'No, I don't. I do not know how me being destitute is going to help them.' Then I said when we got home, 'I'm going home to sleep on my Pratesi sheets right now and I'll feel good about it.' "