Quotes About Legacy

I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.

The true nature of all wealth is temporary; those who have wealth must here and now do good deeds that will live for a long time.

The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Forests are precious resources of the country and a wealth to be handed down to posterity.

My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.

I don't like inherited wealth.

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.

What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile to finish him off.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

What's success all about? What's philanthropy all about? Let's think of our legacy, following in the footsteps of some great Americans like the Carnegies and the Mellons who used their wealth for quality purposes.

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.