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.

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

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We were afraid of attempts of kidnapping.

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.

Money can add very much to one’s ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

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.