A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing.

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful. Lecturing to a group of students at Columbia U. He was 21 years old.

O beloved Pan and all ye other gods of this place, grant to me that I be made beautiful in my soul within, and that all external possessions be in harmony with my inner man. May I consider the wise man rich; and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure. Socrates' prayer, Phaedrus.

I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it. 5 May 2006.