Francis Bacon

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

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

We were afraid of attempts of kidnapping.

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

We went to theatres and museums with a crowd of bodyguards.

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

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

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.

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

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.

He is richest who is content with the least.

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.

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.

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.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

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