Top 34 Quotes About Inherited Wealth
#1. There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.
Tom Robbins
#3. I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#4. Thatcher set ordinary people free, but into a landscape that her other policies had already shaped to suit other, more powerful interests, such as large corporations or Britons with inherited wealth.
Andy Beckett
#5. Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.
Richard Neal
#6. A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.
Louis Auchincloss
#7. The truth is you really are nothing, but this nothing is full, whole, infinite in everything and everywhere. This nothing is conciousness itself. It is already whole, complete and fulfilled. This is the amazing irony.
Gangaji
#8. Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?
Evelyn Waugh
#9. It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity
Gilles Deleuze
#10. 14 A house and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a sensible wife is from the LORD.
Anonymous
#11. California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural wealth and bounty from the investment and hard work of those more noble now resting in our cemeteries-and squandered that gift within a generation.
Victor Davis Hanson
#12. For most Indians in America, wealth is not inherited. Neither do we make it as heads of large hedge funds and private equity funds. For us to make it to the top, we have to use our knowhow to create great new technology products and build high-tech companies.
Romesh Wadhwani
#13. The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.
Thomas Piketty
#14. The beginnings of carpal tunnel were threatening to set in as I tried desperately to get myself off. But O was on seemingly permanent hiatus. And I don't mean Oprah.
Alice Clayton
#16. I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.
Missy Elliot
#17. You will not be able to effectively utilize your inherited wealth if you do not work diligently
Sunday Adelaja
#18. The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.
Dennis Prager
#19. Happy the man who can count his sufferings.
Ovid
#20. Inherited wealth may be easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to loose.
Eric Haney
#21. My grandfather ... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.
Dan Quayle
#22. There is inherited wealth in this country and also inherited poverty.
John F. Kennedy
#23. Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.
Eric L. Haney
#24. Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.
Michael Crichton
#25. Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.
Alexander Alekhine
#26. If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.
Ludwig Von Mises
#27. I realized that the confidence, power, and wisdom to create changes in our life come from knowing what we really are, from knowing our changeless nature.
Ilchi Lee
#28. 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
#29. Growing up in stable, happy, and secure households may end up killing ambition, which leads to downward social mobility. The most extreme examples of this are found in aristocratic families, in which the amount of inherited wealth tends to decline with every generation.
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
#30. You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln
#31. You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me is
your absence, Alaric
Alyssa Day
#32. A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing nothingto increase it; what can the latter do but take to drink and psychoanalysis?
W. H. Auden
#33. Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.
Thomas J. Stanley
#34. Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen
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