Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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.
My great-great-grandfather, who made his money in the jute trade, had at one time 600 houses in London, and within three generations, the money was gone.
I come from money. I'm not going to deny that.
I got a lot of money, but when you wealthy, that mean that your children is ballin', your grandchildren is ballin'.
I have always got gold from my family.
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.
A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.
I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.
When vastly wealthy people say, 'I'm not leaving my kids any money,' it's typically not true.
Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.
Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.
If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the founders of Wal-Mart.
I wake up every day, and the family fortune is on the line, and that's a good thing.
Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.
…the transmission of…property from generation to generation in the same name raised up a distinct set of families who, being privileged by law in the perpetuation of their wealth were thus formed into a Patrician order.
No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
I did not inherit a single dime from my father.
Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
If you were a Rockefeller, wouldn’t you be?.
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.
I'm pretty certain that I'm the only son of a billionaire who can drive a D10 Caterpillar better than I can drive a golf cart.
