Silvio Berlusconi Quotes

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

I always have the best of everything.

I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

The more money the louder it talks.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

Opulence is a crime

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

Me having a beautiful wife and great family and friends around me, all the money I've got, all the things that I've got, a Ferrari that I just ripped the top off of and turned into a convertible, the rings I got, the two mansions on the water, a master's in criminal justice, I'm a cop, plus I look good. So me shooting 40 percent at the foul line is just God's way of saying that nobody's perfect. If I shot 90 percent from the line, it just wouldn't be right.

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

... the monotonous beauty of wealth.

I didn't go around the world, I went around the world on a private jet. I didn't have a hotel room, we had an entire floor. We were spoiled.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.

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

Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.