You've built your wealth and raised your family. What will happen after you are gone? Have you put the foundation in place to allow your family to benefit from your wealth (both human and financial) in the next generation and the one after that?
This section is for those who want to explore ways to help their families gain advantages of character, leadership, legacy, creativity, enterprise and yes wealth and keep those advantages going from generation after generation to the 4th generation and beyond.
Some of the worlds wealthiest families have successfully maintained beneficial and influential family legacies over multiple generations. You can be the initiating generation in your family to develop such a successful family transfer – whatever your level of wealth or poverty.
Millionaire Stories
- Millionaire Story: Sara Blakley - SPANX Inventor
- Roosevelt's Wealth Building
- Luxurious Lifestyles
- Marillyn Hewson – First Female CEO of Lockheed-Martin
- How to Teach Your Child to Delay Gratification
- The Most Important Key to Wealth
- Allowances
- 6 Ways to Become a Millionaire
- Single Minded Pursuit of Wealth
- Andy Williams – Moon River and Me
Posts of interest to families with money
having it- Alternative Investments I – What Are They? November 6, 2010
- Andy Williams – Moon River and Me December 24, 2012
- Are Dreaming of Retirement? November 30, 2011
- Are You Content With Your Riches? June 17, 2011
- Are You the Next Suze Orman,” internationally acclaimed personal finance expert”? November 29, 2011
- Asset Allocation – Make It Your Own December 5, 2014
- Bank Participation Loan Funds – Potential Inflation Hedge February 3, 2011
- Banking Perks for the Affluent October 20, 2012
- Best of the Past December 6, 2012
- Book Review Time At Family Money Values February 16, 2011
- Build a Long Term Family Wealth Plan for Future Prosperity February 9, 2011
- Build Your Family Legacy – Discover what’s important April 17, 2011
- Clutter, Clutter Everywhere October 29, 2012
- Clutter, Clutter Everywhere – continued November 1, 2011
- Combining Insurance Policies: Does it Really Reduce Your Costs? December 5, 2016
- Cost of Attending an All Star Game July 8, 2012
- Cut Your Tax Bill August 1, 2013
- Deciding Where to Put Retirement Fund Distributions January 8, 2011
- DIY Asset Allocation February 14, 2011
- Do You Talk To Your Kids About Your Money? June 28, 2011
- Do You Talk to Your Parents About Money? August 16, 2011
- Do You Want to Live in a Gated Community? September 21, 2013
- Economic Subsidies Can Be Harmful to your Heirs June 29, 2010
- Eight Things Millionaires Have in Common June 22, 2011
- Family Partnerships July 24, 2010
- Farmland Alternative Investments November 18, 2011
- Financial Tasks for the New Year January 2, 2012
- Grandma Rie’s 2011 Money Camp – Activities and Resources July 19, 2011
- Grandma Rie’s 2011 Money Camp Guide and Overview July 5, 2011
- Grandma’s Money Camp 2011- Teaching My Grandchildren About Money June 30, 2011
- Grandma’s Money Camp: Teaching Grandchildren Personal Finance April 25, 2012
- Here’s What to Look for in an investment Manager October 12, 2016
- High Beta Wealthy and the Forbes 400 December 29, 2011
- Hiring Domestic Help December 19, 2012
- How Kids Use Money – Age by Age January 13, 2011
- How to Benefit from Billionaire Techniques – Use an Inner Circle March 14, 2011
- How to Earn Money After You Die September 12, 2013
- How to Live Life Well and Avoid Deathbed Regrets August 30, 2012
- How to Raise a Millionaire – Child Rearing Issues Money Can Cause March 29, 2011
- How to Raise a Millionaire – Continuing Your Young Adult Child’s Financial Preparation May 10, 2011
- How to Raise a Millionaire – Developing Your Child’s Entrepreneurial Aptitude April 9, 2011
- How to raise a millionaire – series introduction March 15, 2011
- How to Raise a Millionaire – Show Your Child That You Spend Time on Finances May 5, 2011
- How to Raise a Millionaire – What the Greatest Generation Did March 20, 2011
- How to Raise a Millionaire – What the Greatest Generation Did (Part 2) March 24, 2011
- How to Teach Your Child About Credit October 26, 2012
- How to Teach Your Kid About the Stock Market January 13, 2013
- How Will You Be Different When You’re Rich? January 16, 2014
- If I Had a Million Extra Dollars July 11, 2011
- Insurance Checkup Time February 9, 2012
- Invest Internationally January 10, 2011
- JK Rowling – the Richest Author in the World June 18, 2010
- Laura Pederson – Trader/Journalist/Author/Teacher December 30, 2010
- Lessons from Ursula Burns – Chairwoman and CEO of Xerox October 27, 2011
- Lets Rewrite History! April 14, 2014
- Luxurious Lifestyles December 12, 2013
- Luxury Living – at Sea August 28, 2012
- Making My Grandchildren Rich – With a Stretch IRA April 28, 2011
- Manage Your Income to Avoid Extra Taxes November 26, 2013
- Marillyn Hewson – First Female CEO of Lockheed-Martin December 2, 2013
- Meeting Life’s Challenges April 26, 2012
- Millionaire Irene Rosenfeld – Kraft Foods Female CEO March 1, 2011
- Millionaire Story – Kraft Foods CEO – Irene Rosenfeld March 23, 2011
- Millionaire Story – Marissa Mayer CEO Yahoo July 26, 2012
- Millionaire Story – Virginia Marie Rometty – 1st Female CEO of IBM June 19, 2012
- Millionaire Story – Jason and Rodney Carr May 13, 2011
- Millionaire Story: Sara Blakley – SPANX Inventor January 5, 2015
- Multi-generation Mortgage Help April 4, 2012
- Mutual Funds Capital Gains Distributions – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly January 21, 2014
- Need a Loan? Make the Case to your Family Bank. October 4, 2012
- Observations on the 2014 Berkshire-Hathaway Meeting May 8, 2014
- Park Volunteering July 24, 2012
- Put a Stay at Old Faithful Inn on Your Bucket List! July 17, 2012
- Rags to Riches – the Millionaire Story of Ursula M. Burns October 24, 2011
- Random Samplings of Millionaire Behavior September 8, 2011
- Renewal March 29, 2013
- Review of: Family Legacy and Leadership – Preserving True Family Wealth in Challenging Times February 21, 2011
- Review of: Family Wealth – Keeping It in the Family February 23, 2011
- Review of: Navigating the Dark Side of Wealth March 2, 2011
- Review of: Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens March 6, 2011
- Review of: Rich Dad, Poor Dad March 4, 2011
- Review of: Richistan March 8, 2011
- Review of: Silver Spoon Kids March 12, 2011
- Review of: The Middle-Class Millionaire February 27, 2011
- Road Trip Tips – for Traveling with Your Grandchild April 24, 2014
- Roosevelt’s Wealth Building September 18, 2014
- Softline Home Fashions, Inc – a Carr Brother’s Million Dollar Success Story May 12, 2011
- Standard Operating Procedures for Money Management January 13, 2014
- Suze Orman – Whether You Love Her or Not, Is a Self-Made Millionaire November 22, 2011
- Tax Lien Certificates – Sure thing or risky business? March 17, 2011
- Tax Lien Certificates – Sure thing or Unknown Abyss? March 16, 2011
- Teaching Self-Sufficiency is Harder than Helping January 31, 2013
- The Downside of Wealth January 29, 2013
- The Family Office March 27, 2012
- The Family Office – An Insider’s View October 16, 2012
- The Future Is NOW – Boomer’s Guide to New Fangled Financial Tools June 7, 2016
- The Future of Personal Finance Record Keeping May 22, 2015
- The Million Dollar House November 17, 2011
- The Millionaires – Where is the Help for the Mere Millionaire? June 14, 2012
- The Role of Advisers in a Wealthy Family April 5, 2013
- The Walton Wealth July 18, 2010
- Three Tools of the Mega Rich July 26, 2010
- Tips for Traveling Without Your Spouse January 26, 2012
- Too Poor for a Private Bank? No Worries, Use the Next Best Thing October 18, 2012
- Trust Funds Can Ruin a Child, Why Do I Want My Grandchildren to Have One? May 3, 2011
- Uncle Sam Wants His Cut of Your Income Before Tax Day! – An Intro to Estimated Taxes December 20, 2011
- Use Halloween To Teach Your Child About Finance October 18, 2011
- Wall Street – Understanding Stock Market Exchanges August 6, 2011
- Wealth October 5, 2011
- Wealth Management Programs Train Next Generations of Ultra Rich October 6, 2010
- What Can Go Wrong When You Are Wealthy? July 1, 2010
- What Can YOUR Bank Do for You? September 30, 2013
- What is Billionaire Meg Whitman Up to These Days? March 14, 2011
- What is Retirement Really Like? September 27, 2012
- What Is Your Favorite Board Game To Teach Financial Literacy? May 19, 2011
- What Wealth Brings August 13, 2013
- What Wealth Category Are You? July 24, 2010
- What’s Your Favorite Online Financial Literacy Game? May 17, 2011
- When is the Cost of a Conference or Seminar Worth the Price? March 14, 2013
- When Memory Fails March 1, 2016
- Where to Find Tax Legislation January 25, 2011
- Why I Will Never Sign A Living Will April 19, 2011
- Why We Have Official Family Meetings September 16, 2011
- Why You Need To Understand Your Money Attitudes July 11, 2011
- Why You Need To Understand Your Money Attitudes July 14, 2011
- Would You Use Your Own Wealth to Influence Politics? November 18, 2010
- Year End Money Moves for the Wealthy November 12, 2014
Quotes
"We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching."
Paul Tsongas
“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” Donald Trump
“The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest” Albert Einstein
“I have ways of making money that you know nothing of. “ John D. Rockefeller
“Not to act is to act” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” Ayn Rand