I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

We have pushed taxation of wealth to a point in Great Britain where in many cases the yield would be greater if the rate were less. The idea that prosperity can be wooed by chasing millionaires is one of the most common and most foolish of modern popular delusions.