I know of a few multimillionaires who started trading with inherited wealth. In each case, they lost it all because they didn't… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited… — Thomas J. Stanley Copy Share Image
I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should,… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose. — Eric L. Haney Copy Share Image
You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How can the physique be braced if no fresh breath from the outer world is suffered to permeate the languid, enervating air… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
