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.
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
We were afraid of attempts of kidnapping.
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That’s not me.
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.
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.
We went to theatres and museums with a crowd of bodyguards.
Abramovich’s got six yachts which are just gigantic and you think, ‘What a waste of money. He could transform so many people’s lives if he put that money to good use.
Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.
He is richest who is content with the least.
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
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 Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
My life with Roman was not the fairytale that the papers reported.
No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
90% of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.
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.
When I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly.
