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.
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.
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.
Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.
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 Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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.
My life with Roman was not the fairytale that the papers reported.
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.
No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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.
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.
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.
90% of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.
