Francis Bacon

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

very day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.

The only wealth I have to give is not material and if you need much more than that, I’m not available.

I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia – I believe that is my greatest wealth.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

90% of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That’s not me.