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I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

The first wealth is health.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty – on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

People don’t have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It’s a dreadfully unjust world.