Socrates

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

How many are the things I can do without!

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

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

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

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.

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

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

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