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With sales of its smooth light Pilsner beer expanding nicely, Denmark's Carlsberg Brewery this summer is pushing completion of a 12,000-ton-capacity barley silo at its plant in the Copenhagen suburb of Valby. Nobody keeps a more interested eye on the project than Carlsberg's competitor, United Breweries, which produces Tuborg. But the watchful eye is not at all due to envy. On the contrary: Tuborg is paying half of the silo's cost and hopes that the facility pays...
...Arthur Carlsberg, you report, is a millionaire. He is so busy he rarely sees his three sons-takes off one week a year to spend with them, and leaves his office to be with them on their birthdays. Big deal. Arthur Carlsberg is no millionaire-he is a pauper...
More than Just Money. The motivation of the millionaire is seldom purely materialism. To him, the accumulation of a million is usually just a milestone on the road to a greater goal. Charles Bluhdorn seeks "the joy of putting something together and seeing it grow." Says Arthur Carlsberg: "Accumulating money is a hobby, a game, a drive. I enjoy it." Perhaps the best explanation comes from Manhattan's Robert K. Lifton, 37, head of the widely .diversified Transcontinental Investing Corp., who has earned $4,750,000 through real estate and other ventures. Says he: "This is our form...
Whatever their motivation, the millionaires frequently pay a high price for their wealth. They work like galley slaves, have little time for recreation or exercise (Arthur Carlsberg every morning does 15 minutes of pushups, sit-ups and squats-"while I listen to stock market reports on the radio"). Usually they put in ten or twelve hours at the office, then spend their nights and weekends pondering reports or burning up the long-distance lines. Practically everything that they do is somehow devoted to building the business. Says Fletcher Jones, 34, of Los Angeles, who in 1959 saw a need...
...tend to have few trusted friends, feel most comfortable in mixing with people who, like themselves, have made it big. They also have little time for their families. Arthur Carlsberg, for example, is so busy that he rarely sees his three sons; he takes off one week a year to spend with them, also leaves the office to be with them on their birthdays-and that's about it. Many millionaires say that they worry that all the money may soften their youngsters, rob them of incentive and aggressiveness. To fight that possibility, Boston Real Estate Millionaire Gerald Blakeley...