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Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

— Toni Morrison

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

— Stuart Wilde

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

— Bill Gates

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

— Richard Neal

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Who's, like, inherited a lot of money that has gone on to do things in our lives?

— Anderson Cooper

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.

— Nick Hanauer

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

— Ethel Waters

✗Opposing Perspectives

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

— Ayn Rand

What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it.

— Foster Friess

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

— Patrick Henry