Sir Richard Branson

I think it’s sad when people make a lot of money and they want the biggest boat or the biggest car or the biggest plane.

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 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.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

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

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

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

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.

My life with Roman was not the fairytale that the papers reported.

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.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

He is richest who is content with the least.

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

Money can add very much to one’s ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.