Rita Rudner

Fame for fame’s sake is a completely empty experience. Fame should be a by-product (and not necessarily a good one) of achieving something extraordinary.

I don’t like when there’s too much conversation because I’m shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it’s very busy, when they have one.

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.

The only wealth I have to give is not material and if you need much more than that, I’m not available.

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

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That’s not me.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

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

We were afraid of attempts of kidnapping.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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