We went to theatres and museums with a crowd of bodyguards.
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.
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.
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.
No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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.
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.
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.
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That’s not me.
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
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 only wealth I have to give is not material and if you need much more than that, I’m not available.
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.
We were afraid of attempts of kidnapping.
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.
90% of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.
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.
My life with Roman was not the fairytale that the papers reported.
