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