John Dos Passos Quotes

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?

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.

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

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.

People die millionaires. All your life, you're gonna stress money?

When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...

The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.

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

Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance isn't as hard as you might think.

I don't want to outlive my money.

I'm definitely going to be setting up a trust fund for my little nephew, because I really want him to have a little bit of an advantage when it comes time for him to make his way in the world.

I have three lovely children. They are beautiful, talented, and kind-hearted. I'm most proud of them. I love them so much that I will never want to burden them with a large amount of inherited wealth.

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

With inheritances, it's really important not to give the impression that you're extorting your children, and one way you can not do that is to make it clear to them that you're not leaving the whole of your estate to them at all, but to various charitable organizations.

It was only when I started handling Treasury Operations that I realised all of a sudden just how much wealth we have. That is a huge responsibility, so I decided to get on with it and learn how to manage it, because I am a single child and have no siblings to share the responsibility with.

You'll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. ... Now, I've been blessed to make hundreds of millions of dollars in my life. I can't take it with me, and neither can you. It's not how much you have but what you do with what you have.

I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

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.

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.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.