Quotes About Legacy

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

When you get a little older, you think, I'd like to make a little money and stick it away or buy a place - or win the world championship.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

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?

People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

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

The only thing I want from my money is to die in comfort.

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.

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.

I made my money the old-fashioned way, I inherited it.

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.

Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.