What Billionaires Think and Say

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Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.
Li Ka-Shing

Have a vision and the money will come.
Rubens Ometto

I don’t play golf or all those things people normally do for business. I do parties. That’s where I bring people in, showcase ideas and, in the end, do deals.
Guy Laliberte

To stabilise society, pachinkos contribute much. They really soothe people’s anxiety.
Kenkichi Nakajima

I’m not in business to make money for the other guy. I’m in business to make money for myself.
Sheldon Adelson

Power, money, that’s just the road to respect. After all, money disappears, friends die, and you die, but your reputation remains.
Thor Bjorgolfsson

Earn enough money so you can afford to waste time.
Kiyoshi Sagawa

One of the things that drives me is the excitement that I could fail. What better buzz can you get?
Calvin Ayre

Greek shipowners like to boast, “I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they’re worth ten times as much.” It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Happiest is a man who has his vocation as a hobby.
Murray Edwards

Very good for the waistline. One of the best reducing programmes.
Alfred Heineken, on being kidnapped and held for three weeks in 1993