Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously
Written by David Green and Bill High
Narrated by Milton Bagby
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About this audiobook
Join self-made billionaire David Green, founder of America's craft store giant Hobby Lobby, as he shares the key to building a powerful legacy: generosity. In Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again, Green unpacks time-tested principles that will help you reap the benefits of generosity for multiple generations to come.
In 1970, David Green began making picture frames in his garage. With hard work, he and his wife, Barbara, turned that humble beginning into the world's largest privately owned arts-and-crafts retailer, employing forty-three thousand people across nine hundred stores in forty-seven states.
But it's not all about business. Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again--part memoir, part personal manifesto--will change the way you think about prosperity, teaching you that true wealth is about more than money. It's about growing your faith, your family, and your intellectual capital alongside your bank account.
Green also reminds us that it's not just giving that sets the foundation for financial freedom. Practicing good stewardship also helps us pass on our values and set good examples for future generations.
As Hobby Lobby has grown, Green has stayed true to this philosophy by adhering to three key principles:
- Work with all your heart for God and not for men
- Think ahead, but hold your plans lightly--you don't know what God has in store for you
- Consider what you want your legacy to be
Follow Green as he invites you to see that a life marked by generosity can also be a life full of adventure--a life that pays the best rewards, changes the lives of those around you, and gives you the tools you need to leave a lasting legacy.
David Green
David Green is the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby, the largest privately owned arts and crafts retailer in the world. Hobby Lobby employs over 33,000 people, operates 800 stores in forty-seven states, and grosses more than $5 billion dollars a year. Currently David serves on the Board of Reference for Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2013, he was honored by receiving the World Changer award and is also a past Ernst & Young national retail/consumer Entrepreneur of the Year Award recipient. In 2017, the Green family opened the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC.
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Reviews for Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wonderful book. Must read for everyone in business and everyone thinking about how to leave a legacy for generations.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5a Self searching book, that has given me a new perspective about life, last last only what we do for Christ last! but this book shares the truth about life principles that Gods word have taught us, that if we do them, they have great rewards! i encourage anyone to read this book. Be a Blessing.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Every Christian and every believer with a business need to read this book to operate in the fullness of the kingdom of God. It is a must
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Super easy, short listen. Nothing fancy about it, but great concepts. Very interesting and bold choices by Mr. Green. Inspiring!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing book! The biggest takeaway from this book is, "Only one life, 'twill soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last." this is an excellently written book that is biblical. David shows you how to truly be the best steward of what God has entrusted to you. All that matters in eternity is what you have done for the King.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great book on generosity God's way.