Forefathers Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think what you inherit is not real. I haven't inherited anything. What I have is really mine because I made it myself.

— Ken Hakuta

We inherit the family we're born into and create the family we need.

— Carole Radziwill

You have to make your own family, your own life.

— Francesca Lia Block

Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy.

— Prince

Your life must be a progression towards ownership - first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

— Robert Greene

The more things you own, the more those things own you.

— Don Dodge

As a first-generation inheritor, the first mandate is to preserve our family wealth and hopefully increase it.

— Roshni Nadar

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

— Christine Gregoire

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

— Kelsey Grammer

Multiple Inheritance is like a parachute. You don't often need it, but when you do, you really need it.

— Grady Booch

The things you own end up owning you.

— Anonymous