This is one of Einstein's most famous documented stories

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4 years ago

The world Einstein traveled to Japan in 1922 at the time that it was announced that he had won the Nobel Prize for Physics !!

At the hotel he found no money with him to give the butler who brought tea.

So he grabbed a piece of paper and wrote a sentence on it, then signed it, then gave it to the server and advised him to keep it

And he said to him: One day its value will exceed the tip.

95 years later, on October 24, 2017, one of the nephews of that hotel worker called the Bidding House, based in Jerusalem, to put the paper up for auction.

The auction started with the first buyer (2000 dollars) and after 25 minutes the auction stopped on an amount (1.3 million dollars).

Now ... let's see what Einstein wrote on that paper:

“A quiet and humble life brings greater happiness than the pursuit of success accompanied by constant fatigue.”

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Nice story! Let's hope our $0.50 tip in Bitcoin Cash one day will also be priced in millions :)

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