Quotes About Legacy

When I made my decision to not follow in my poor dad's footsteps after

La inteligencia financiera no se refiere tanto a cuánto dinero gane usted, sino cuánto dinero puede usted conservar, qué tan duro trabaja ese dinero para usted y para cuántas generaciones lo ha conservado.

You and your children's future will be determined by choices you make today, not tomorrow.

it's not how much money you make. It's how much you keep, and for how many generations you keep it.

In closing, I leave you with this thought.

It's like planting a tree. You water it for years, and then one day it doesn't need you anymore. Its roots are implanted deep enough. Then the tree provides shade for your enjoyment. Mike

The old-money people, the long-term rich, build their asset column first. Then the income generated from the asset column buys their luxuries. The poor and middle class buy luxuries with their own sweat, blood, and children's inheritance.

Instead of paying us money, rich dad had given us so much more.

In 1994, I retired. I was 47, and my wife Kim was 37. Retirement does not mean not working. For us, it means that, barring unforeseen cataclysmic changes, we can work or not work, and our wealth grows automatically, staying ahead of inflation. Our assets are large enough to grow by themselves. It's like planting a tree. You water it for years, and then one day it doesn't need you anymore. Its roots are implanted deep enough. Then the tree provides shade for your enjoyment.

One dad said, "The reason I'm not rich is because I have you kids." The other said, "The reason I must be rich is because I have you kids.

It's not how much you make but how much you keep—and how many generations you keep it.

It is trained well, it can create enormous wealth seemingly instantaneously. An untrained mind can also create extreme poverty that can crush a family for generations.

His father owned warehouses, a construction company, a chain of stores, and three restaurants.

Their families have often become very wealthy through the deferral of the taxes on these assets they donate, and do not need the asset that made them rich anymore.

It's like planting a tree. You water it for years, and then one day it doesn't need you anymore. Its roots are implanted deep enough. Then the tree provides shade for your enjoyment.

Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.

I will keep faith, Walter, she said steadily. I will work ­and teach ­and learn ­and laugh, yes, I will even laugh ­through all my years, because of you and because of what you gave when you followed the call.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

The dead will only be dead if you stop remembering them.