I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
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I have my own foundation, which I just started, called Believe Anything Is Possible, which is going to be an organization to help the underprivileged.
When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.
My foundation is based on helping children, and I hand-pick projects that are close to my heart and home.
Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child's life will not only help him or her reach their reach their full potential but will also result in better societies as a whole.
What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.
My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest levels of wealth creation.
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.
Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment.
My own foundation concentrates on women's economic empowerment on the basis that if women have their own money and are able to support themselves, they can make choices about what happens to them in their lives, about whether they have education, whether they get married, and what happens to their children.
I distributed my wealth among my children and set aside a portion for endowment to run charity projects.