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🪜🇮🇹 The Top of the Spanish Steps Rome — A 300-Year Lesson in Legacy Investment You climb 135 steps. You reach the top. Rome opens up in front of you. And I keep thinking about Étienne Gueffier. Gueffier was a French diplomat who died in 1660 and left his entire personal fortune to Rome with one instruction: build a staircase connecting the Piazza di Spagna to the Trinità dei Monti church above. Construction didn't begin until 1723. 63 years after his death. He never saw the first stone laid. He funded them anyway. Standing at the top of the Spanish Steps — looking out across Rome's roofline toward the Pantheon and the Quirinale, with the Trinità dei Monti's twin towers framing the sky behind you — I keep asking the same question I ask every time I encounter a story like this: What are you building that you will never see finished? The highest form of investment — in business, in family, in community, in faith — is the one that has no personal return horizon. Gueffier's investment has generated incalculable value for Rome, for travelers, for artists, for the world for 300 years. His name is remembered by anyone who researches the steps. His legacy outlived everything else about him. At The Good Game of Life we talk about this constantly: the difference between investing for personal return and investing for legacy. One produces results that expire. The other produces results that compound for centuries. 135 steps. 300 years. Still delivering. What are you building? 🏛️ #Leadership #Legacy #GoodGameOfLife #SpanishSteps #RomeItaly #Rome2026 #ItalyTravel #BusinessMindset #LegacyInvestment #EternalCity

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