Financial Inheritance Quotes

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

Nobody would deny that if someone was a billionaire in 1962, his billions are going to affect all of his descendants. The reverse is also true. The lack of education, material, and finances for a slave are going to affect the descendants of that individual as well.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.

Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened.

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

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

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

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

I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

I don't know anything about bankrupting four companies. Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now? Selling watches in Manhattan.

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

Who's, like, inherited a lot of money that has gone on to do things in our lives?

It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting to their unearned inheritance. An inheritance tax would de facto help remedy this.

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.