Masayoshi Son Quotes

I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Many people have beautiful homes and beautiful things, but other people haven't ever seen them. So why have them?

Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

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.

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

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

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

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

I've got so much money it's ridiculous.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth.

I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

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

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

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.

You can never be too rich or too thin.