Whenever We Were About to Get Very Rich, Something Happened to Make Us Poor

Siegmund often sounded stoically philosophic about having to start his life over again in England. He liked to quote his grandfather Siegmund, who said, "It has been the Warburg's good fortune that whenever we were about to get very rich, something happened to make us poor and we had to start all over again.

(The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family)