Roman Abramovich

In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I’m used to four different seasons; it’s difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

I really don’t retain information – by the time I arrive wherever I’m going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.

Money plays an important role in football but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a Carling Cup game in a small city and it could result in a draw – the excitement, the spirit, the atmosphere – that’s the real beauty of football in England.

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can’t compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

But charity is a very complicated thing. It’s important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.

Everyone’s got their own reason. Some believe it’s because I spent some of my childhood in the far north that I helped Chukotka, some believe it’s because I had a difficult childhood that I helped Chukotka, some believe it’s because I stole money that I helped Chukotka. None of these is real. When you come out and you see a situation and there are 50,000 people, you want to do something. I haven’t seen anything worse than what I saw there in my life.

I’m bout this shmoney!

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need; if I die by four O’clock.

Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences that money can buy

There comes a point where it doesn’t matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

There is only one amount of money – just not enough!

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

Use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.

Don’t depend on anyone but yourself for providing financial security.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right!

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.