Seneca the Younger Quotes

The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace.

I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die.

Why should someone who has $5 billion only give away $2.5 billion? They can't take it with them.

If I die and am worth $50 million as opposed to $3 billion, it is really not important.

Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in.

At the end of your life, you cannot take a penny with you. So what is the object of money if you can't take it with you?

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.

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.

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

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

If you are money, then, when you die, you will be spent.

A man who dies … rich, lies disgraced.

7 percent of inheritors get two-thirds of all the wealth transfers..

Even if I was to give my children a small part of my wealth, it would be more than they can digest in many lifetimes.

None of us can take anything with us when we're gone. It's what we leave that's gonna matter.

Men who leave their money to be distributed by others are pie-faced mutts.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?