He is richest who is content with the least.
90% of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Money can add very much to one’s ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
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.
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.
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
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.
No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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.
The only wealth I have to give is not material and if you need much more than that, I’m not available.
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.
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.
The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
We were afraid of attempts of kidnapping.
Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.
When I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly.
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
My life with Roman was not the fairytale that the papers reported.
