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.
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.
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.
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 I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly.
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 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.
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.
We went to theatres and museums with a crowd of bodyguards.
Money can add very much to one’s ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That’s not me.
The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
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.
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
We were afraid of attempts of kidnapping.
My life with Roman was not the fairytale that the papers reported.