Quote Originally Posted by Sapphire View Post
That's what he likes to say, but I'm pretty sure it would have been fine to stop at 5-10 million or so. 80 million? For the empire.
Quote Originally Posted by UChessmaster View Post
Inflate his ego*
Both true, he did get a lot carried away with his fortune building. But at the core it was still for his family. Like Carnage said, he never really did explain to his family why he did what he did, that it was (mostly) all for them.

Remember also that he wasn't aware of how much money he had made until Skylar showed him the pile, at which point he stopped, and he didn't even know how much money was there.