Ray Nagin Quotes

Children are poor men's riches.

We must keep ourselves busy with finding ways to generate wealth for generations to come and work to pass down things to our children for them to pass down to their children.

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

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

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.

In the next 15 or 20 years, I hope I'll be the richest man in the world. That's one of my goals. I want to be a billionaire. I want to get to a position where generation on generation don't have to worry about nothing. I don't want family members from my kids to my son's kids to never have to worry. And I can't do that now just playing basketball.

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.

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.

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

I'm for economic independence.

I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.

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

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that's a great thing to do.

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

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.

The - the early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and - and remained personally very wealthy. Tatas were different in the sense the future generations were not so wealthy. They - they were involved in the business, but most of the family wealth is put into trust, and the family did not, in fact, enjoy enormous wealth.

I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.

I've always said I have more money than I can spend, than my children can spend.

We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream.

Ensuring that our children have more and better opportunities is the essence of the American dream.

The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.