T.I. Quotes

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

You are in a position to create wealth not only for yourself but for your children and your children's children.

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.

There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own.

I want to see wealth cascading down the generations.

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

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.

Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.

The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it's called the American dream.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

That's what I do this for, to secure my family's future. I don't care about anything else. I'm able to spoil people, and that's the best thing.

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

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 have a few properties, some in the U.K., some in the States, some in Kosovo. It's a nice little empire - I'm trying to create something so my family can be all right.

Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.

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.

Everybody getting a significant exit creates a legacy and creates something that you can pay forward and bootstrap an industry in a substantial way.

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

Only 18 percent of the income of America’s richest families come from work—hard or otherwise. In America, most wealth does not come from hard work, It comes from wealth.

American planters, who, from the early age at which their children marry, have generally the pleasure of seeing in their lifetime their descendants doubling their numbers in the third and fourth generations, have also the solid satisfaction of finding the produce of the world they were peopling increase in equal degree.

Sons represent security, insurance, a 401(k), a bank.

I just want to do some movies that my children and my grandchildren would be proud of. That's my yardstick.

I want to have generational money.