Putting faith in the hands of billionaires

Andrew Carnegie, one of the world’s first billionaires, encapsulated his acquired wisdom on making money with a simple phrase: “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do.”

Those words echoed in my mind a few months ago as I settled into one of the comfy armchairs at the Old Head Golf Club, keenly earwigging the hushed chat between a pair of obviously well-to-do Americans sitting nearby.