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.

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.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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.

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.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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 always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

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

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

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.

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 I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly.