Robert Orben

There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

He is richest who is content with the least.

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

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 were afraid of attempts of kidnapping.

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

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

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