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Cuadro Comparativo de Milton Petrie y Hetty Green.

Milton Petrie and Hetty Green both came from wealthy families but had very different personalities and approaches to money. Petrie was born in 1902 to a poor but kind family and became the most generous man in the world, giving away over $150 million at his death. In contrast, Hetty Green was born in 1835 and was the richest and meanest woman, inheriting $7.5 million at age 21 and obsessively saving every penny throughout her life.

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Cuadro Comparativo de Milton Petrie y Hetty Green.

Milton Petrie and Hetty Green both came from wealthy families but had very different personalities and approaches to money. Petrie was born in 1902 to a poor but kind family and became the most generous man in the world, giving away over $150 million at his death. In contrast, Hetty Green was born in 1835 and was the richest and meanest woman, inheriting $7.5 million at age 21 and obsessively saving every penny throughout her life.

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MILTON PETRIE HETTY GREEN

Born He was born in 1902. She was born in Massachussets,


USA, in 1835.
Childhood and • His family were poor but • She was a very spoilt, only child.
family kind-hearted. His father was Her father was a millionare
a Russian immigrant who businessman. Her mother was
became a policeman, but he often ill, and so from the age of
never arrested anyone, he two her father took her with him
was too kind. He couldn’t to work and taught her about
even give a parking ticket. stocks and shares. At the age of
• He got married four times. six she started reading the daily
His last wife’s name was financial newspapers and she
Carrol. opened her own bank account.
Her father died when she was 21
and she inherited $7.5 million.
• At 33 she married Edward
Green, a multimillionare, and
had two children, Ned and
Sylvia.
Charasteristics • He was the most generous • She was the richiest and meanest
man in the world. woman in the world.
Facts • He paid the hospital bill and • After her father death, she
the funeral of the man who invested all the money that she
sold him the newspaper inherited on Wall Street.
every morning. • Hetty saved every penny, eating
• Whenever he read about in the cheapest restaurants for 15
personal disasters in his cents.
newspaper Petrie sent • She always argued about prices
generous cheques, especially in shops.
to the families of policeman • She walked to the local grocery
or fireman injured at work. store to buy broken cookies
• He sent cheques to a mother (biscuits) wich were much
who lost five children in a cheaper, and to get a free bone
fire. for her much-loved dog, Dewey.
• He sent cheques to a • Once, she lost a two-cent stamp
beautiful model, whose face and spent the night looking for it.
was cut in a knife attack. • She never bought clothes and
always wore the same long,
ragged black skirt.
• When her son Ned fell and
injured his knee, she refused to
pay for a doctor and spent hours
looking for free medical help. In
the end Ned’s leg was
amputated.
Death • Milton Petrie died in 1994, • Hetty died in 1916, when she
when he was 92. was 81.
Inheritance • His will was 120 pages long • She left her children $100
because he left $150 million million. Her daughter built a
to 383 people. hospital with her money.

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