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.
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.
90% of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.
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.
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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.
Money can add very much to one’s ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
The only wealth I have to give is not material and if you need much more than that, I’m not available.
My life with Roman was not the fairytale that the papers reported.
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
We went to theatres and museums with a crowd of bodyguards.
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.
He is richest who is content with the least.
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.
When I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly.
Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
We were afraid of attempts of kidnapping.
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That’s not me.
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.
