Gina Rinehart Quotes

I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimately, that I know I'm going to pass down to my kids, and that's most important to me than anything else in the world. I can't pass an acting career down to my children.

It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who better to look out for your best interests than family?

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.

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.

I want to see wealth cascading down the generations.

I want to have generational money.

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 have worked extraordinarily hard for decades to ensure the success of our family business for all of the Middleton family.

As a first-generation inheritor, the first mandate is to preserve our family wealth and hopefully increase it.

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

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

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

The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren.

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!'

I want to leave something behind. A blueprint. A work ethic. Something that my great-grandkids and their kids and their kids can see: This is where it started. Lineage. Intergenerational wealth. Things that are here forever. All that.

A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.

I got a lot of money, but when you wealthy, that mean that your children is ballin', your grandchildren is ballin'.

The saying was that Madam Walker made the money, and her daughter - my great-grandmother - spent it.

Nothing's given in the Rock family.

My family was pretty solidly middle-class. We had a furniture store out near Connie Mack Stadium, and when Dad died, my mom took it over.

My great-great-grandfather, who made his money in the jute trade, had at one time 600 houses in London, and within three generations, the money was gone.