Quotes About Inheritance

I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.

It's not like I pretend the past doesn't exist or that I'm not proud to be a part of it.

I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.

Those who live, live off the dead.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

I come from money. I'm not going to deny that.

I am of an African-Jamaican descent.

For me, the burning desire has always been about building what my family had.

I haven't come from a background where I've had it imbued in me from an early age that I'm destined to lead or to rule.

Just knowing your dad is a professional basketball player, it just makes you feel like you're destined for.

DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done.

My father would make music keeping public tastes in mind. I have inherited this from him.

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

The entire American concept of the 'family business' is put at risk by the death tax.

If inheritance tax were to be introduced for the monarch, it would mean slowly slicing away the royal assets.

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.

If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

If no estate tax is imposed, capital gains taxes can be avoided indefinitely.