The answer to this question can be found in chapter 19. This is the chapter that has the man in the yellow suit reveal to the Tucks that he has bought the mysterious woods by the Foster home. He now owns the magical spring, and he plans on selling the water. Angus Tuck screams out that the man in the yellow suit is out of his mind, and the man then clarifies a bit more about who exactly he plans on selling the water to.
The man in the yellow suit frowned. "But I'm not going to sell it to just anybody," he protested. "Only to certain people, people who deserve it. And it will be very, very expensive. But who wouldn't give a fortune to live forever?"
In the man with the yellow suit's mind, he is going to sell the water to people who "deserve it." That could be a good thing, and I suppose that there are certain types of people that would do quite well with immortality. The Tuck family is a good example of a family that hasn't abused the power. Unfortunately, the man's following sentence alerts readers to who the "deserving" people are. The people that deserve the water are going to be the people that can pay his outrageous price.
Basically, the man in the yellow suit plans to sell the water to the highest bidder.
In exchange for returning Winnie Foster to her home, the man in the yellow suit will become the sole owner of the Foster land. This means that the magical spring will also belong to him.
Because of his greed, the man in the yellow suit fully intends to sell the land and the spring to the person who can pay the most money for it. He slyly tells the Tucks that he will not sell the water to just anyone; his buyer will belong to a group of people who deserve the best in life.
The man in the yellow suit classifies the deserving person as someone who can lavish an entire fortune on the purchase. In other words, the man in the yellow suit will only sell the water to a wealthy person. Our antagonist's words exemplify his craven and avaricious nature.
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