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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'

By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.

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.