Fortune-Rebuilding as Core Competence

""Just over the last ten years, I can say that I have made a fortune again. But my father himself had made a fortune again, after the war. And my great-grandfather had the merit of creating the first wealth.""

""So it is at least the third time, in my family, that we build a fortune. It is ultimately the only way to really get rich, given a tax system as little 'stimulating'. Also facing the international monetary disorders that mean that money could very well be worth nothing at the end of every month.""

"The history of Lazard was, however, chaotic. Several times, the saga nearly ended abruptly. In the dark days of 1940, when all "Jewish assets" were seized, when the fabulous collections of the David-Weills were being added to the artistic loot of Hitler or Goering, who could have imagined that everything would restart less than five years later?"