Charles Krauthammer Quotes

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

I had been writing professionally since 1988.

After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

My firm has 25,000 high-net-worth clients. A typical account would be that of a couple aged 65 and 60 who need their money to last the rest of their lives, 25 to 35 years.

You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

If you're 35, 45, or even 55 - you have a very long time horizon - 40 years or vastly more. That is you, and/or your spouse, are likely to live about that long, and you'll be investing the whole way.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I do remember him leaving his full-time job at the Central Electrical Generating Board to concentrate on books.

One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create value.

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

The problem is, how can we help them get rich and stay rich ourselves?

I've been fortunate enough to experience financial success on a large scale through both my music career and my many business ventures. With this type of financial success comes financial responsibility.

When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

If no estate tax is imposed, capital gains taxes can be avoided indefinitely.

Many people are smart enough to know how to manage themselves out of the estate tax.

It really was total heaven to be a writer. As a model or actor you are employed on someone's whim. As a writer, you are in control.

People die millionaires. All your life, you're gonna stress money?

Wealth management businesses are capital light businesses.

Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.

Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home.