Jack Vance Quotes

I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.

No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.

What I'm doing with the NWO is for me, for my family, so I can leave a legacy for my kids.

I used the Nobel money to buy a house and for the education of my children.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives.

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.

I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

I'm not really interested in making money.

I prefer to stay poor.

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

The right amount of money to leave children is enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing

Even if I was to give my children a small part of my wealth, it would be more than they can digest in many lifetimes.

I want to see my family prosper, see my kids grow old.