The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
Isadora Duncan
Source: My Life
Contributed by: Tsuya
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
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Contributed by: Erin
...a very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing.
Warren Buffett (1930 -)
Source: A conversation with Warren Buffett: http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/25/magazines/fortune/charity2.fortune/index.htm
Contributed by: ~C4Chaos
All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors'.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Source: The Prophet, p.21 (On Giving)
Contributed by: Zaady