Quotes About Legacy

There is no question about that. Business is my hobby. It is not a burden to me. In any case Reliance now can run without me.

Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

History remembers most what you did last.

Going from PayPal, I thought: 'Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?' Not from the perspective, 'What's the best way to make money?'

Success is not success without a successor.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

What we live by we die by.

Are we not all immortal till our work is done?

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

Legacy is greater than currency.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.'

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

The past does not influence me; I influence it.