John D. Rockefeller, the well known millionaire, gave away millions, but he himself was very mean about small sums of money. One day he went to stay at hotel in New York and asked for the cheapest room in it. He said, ”I am staying here alone and only need a small room.”
The manager showed him into a room and said, “This is our smallest and cheapest room,” and added, “but why do you choose a poor room like this? When your son stays here, he always has our most expensive room; yours is our cheapest.”
“Oh！ Yes ,” said Rockefeller, “but his father is a rich man; mine isn’t.”