Quotes About Legacy

Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharaohs and comb through every year in human history ever since, looking in every corner of the world for evidence of extraordinary wealth, and almost 20 percent of the names they end up with come from

home. What did two of Louis and Regina Borgenicht's sons do? They went to law school, and no less than nine of their grandchildren ended up as doctors and lawyers as well. Here is the most remarkable of Farkas's family trees. It belongs to a Jewish family from

This person will have been born in a

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives.

My great-great-great-grandmother

we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine. It's not

Gates without mentioning the computer at Lakeside is false, or accounting for Asian math prowess without going back to the rice paddies is false. It leaves out my mother's many opportunities and the importance of her cultural legacy.

Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky — but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.

The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine.

from centuries past, as well as contemporary billionaires, such

Their world—their culture and generation and family history—gave them the greatest of opportunities.

My great-great-great-grandmother was bought at Alligator Pond.

Le gusta este jardín, que es suyo? ¡Evite que sus hijos lo destruyan!

You can't see them, but it's chock full of defunct newspapermen, still spying through keyholes and persuading themselves they're acting in the best interests of democracy.

I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.

Success has many fathers.

Success is not what you leave to but what you leave behind

If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.

Be smart. You Only Die Once -YODO

Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.

In the autumn of your years don't make it so that what you look back on is regret. Live your life now so that whatever you do gives some sunshine before you head into the winter of your life.

Integrity is a powerful force, keeping you alive to others long after you've left their presence.

Even during a mid-life crisis do not deviate from your goal. History remembers only those who succeed.

None of our achievement matters, than how we have lived our lives.