Dorothea Benton Frank Quotes

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

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

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.

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

I got a family house for everybody to live in - my mom, my sisters and I. And I made sure that it has a separate apartment downstairs for myself. Family is more important than anything. We don't come from any money. So once I get them settled in, in a nice house, then I'll branch out and see if I can get something else.

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

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

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.

And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

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.

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.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

My instruction to my parents is that I would rather they enjoy their retirement than leave me anything when they go. I am much happier watching them enjoying life.

I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through.

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 made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

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

I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.

Yes, I've never inherited a penny!

All the family money is for philanthropy, except for living expenses for my mother. She is 94 and isn't a big spender.

I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

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

Let's say, 100 years ago, I'm not sure how many people had to empty out their relatives' homes; they just stayed in the same house, because they lived there. Nowadays, almost everyone, at least once in their life, somehow, has to deal with this experience.