A'Lelia Bundles Quotes

When vastly wealthy people say, 'I'm not leaving my kids any money,' it's typically not true.

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

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

I want to see wealth cascading down the generations.

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

There are parents with wealth who just want their kids to be wealthy, and then there are other parents with money who want to teach their kids how they got it. That's what my dad was like.

When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

Before I really even understood what the term meant, I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be able to drive the beautiful old Rolls-Royces my father admired when I was a child.

My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren't empire builders.

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.

We all know far too many stories where the third generation just destroys everything that the first two have built up, and I certainly hope my family are different because I've worked too hard and my father has worked too hard for it to be given away.

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

The money doesn't really matter. I've been a multi-millionaire for a long time. My sons are rich.

For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your family's wealth.

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

Rich Americans are more likely to have made their own fortunes than to have inherited them.

I was always interested in having my own money - not my family's money. I don't think it had anything to do with me being Elvis's granddaughter. None of my drive was, 'I need to get away from my family legacy!'

For many years Madam Walker was just a little footnote in history. As a woman who made haircare products, she was really consigned to something trivial.

Hard work pays off. But it doesn't stop now. I know I'm generational wealthy, as you can say, but still got business to handle.

I've found that once people are introduced to Madam Walker's story, they are inspired but also perplexed about why she was omitted from their history lessons.

My kids certainly aren't going to have the money. They don't need it.