Per Mertesacker Quotes

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

My mom's made it clear to me that, like, there's no trust fund.

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

Economically anxious, many parents see their children's accomplishments as a sort of insurance against the financial challenges of old age; high-achieving kids, this logic goes, will become high-earning adults and therefore be better able to help Mom and Dad pay for the assisted-living facility in a few decades.

I have grandchildren who are going to need every cent I make.

I have amazing parents. They had worked hard all their lives for me, and when I started to make money, I wanted to be able to take care of them.

I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

I live very well, but I support a lot of relatives.

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

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

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.

I'm not independently wealthy.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.

I spoil my children rotten and hope to leave them enough so they can do the same to theirs.

Older couples bring obligations such as support payments and debt as well as decades of financial experience to a marriage.

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.

I always thought I'd buy my mother a house if I ever became successful - a big, beautiful house on the nicest street in town. It didn't exactly work out that way. I was still borrowing money from her in my 40s.

My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only child, they wanted me to become a pharmacist. But my own preference would have been to study philosophy and mathematics.