Irina Abramovich

We were afraid of attempts of kidnapping.

We went to theatres and museums with a crowd of bodyguards.

I had grown up without a father and that is why it was so important to me that my children would never be in need of anything.

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.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

We went to theatres and museums with a crowd of bodyguards.

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.

No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

We were afraid of attempts of kidnapping.

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.

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

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.

90% of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.

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.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

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.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.