When you make a promise to yourself or to others do you stick to your word?
Keeping promises is always a good idea, but what if your promise had over a $700,000,000.00 price tag attached to it?!
A value of 480,000,000.00 British Pounds didn’t stop Albert Gubay, 82, from following through on a promise he made with his higher power as a youngster.
Gulbay, founder of the Kwik Save supermarket chain, made a promise to G-d as a penniless young entrepreneur that when he made it rich he would give back half of his wealth to his faith.
Now he’s done even more! Gulbay has handed over virtually all his £480m wealth to a new foundation, leaving himself less than £10m.
Now that’s keeping your promise!
The UK TimesOnline.com reports:
 “Gubay, who lives in Santon on the Isle of Man with his second wife, Carmel, was born in north Wales to a Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother.
He started out selling sweets, and opened the first Kwik Save discount store in Prestatyn in 1965, based on ideas from businesses in Germany and America.
Gubay sold the company eight years later for £14m and moved his money into property in Hull, Liverpool, Sheffield and the Isle of Man.
He has also set up chains of stores successfully in New Zealand and Ireland, although his venture in America went bankrupt in the 1980s.”