Suharto Quotes

I have business interests in Dubai, Monaco and all over the world.

It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.

We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.

I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.

An honest money system is the only alternative.

The rest of the world wants our cash; we like plastic.

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes.

The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.

I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.

Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.

In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.

Our nest eggs, no matter how small, are safe.

Massive tax avoidance. Billions and billions of dollars.

We know India is very focussed on black money; it is a very high-focus subject and we have been very careful to make sure the investments into India are legitimate. There is no 'round-tripping' or hot money or bad money being funnelled through Singapore.

More and more, the superrich don't live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them on private jets, perhaps, concealing many of their real estate purchases through webs of shell companies and trusts.

Shell companies can be owned by other shell companies; opaque offshore vehicles are carefully designed so that regulators can't identify who is using them; with the right accountants, they can be set up quickly and easily.

There is nothing inevitable about this secret offshore world. It is not a fact of nature: Our laws created tax havens, and our laws can also end them. We could forbid Goldman Sachs from owning opaque offshore vehicles. We could prevent companies such as Cadre from accepting anonymous investments.

I did not use a Cayman Island entity to avoid paying taxes for myself.

There's something fundamentally grubby about the rich paying people to seek out cracks in the system to hide their money.

I'm thankful for what I've got, but I'm cramming all my money into a trust fund because I don't ever want to look around and wonder where all my money went.

The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.

That's why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it.

If we can rid the world of financial centres that thrive on lack of transparency, non-cooperation, and weak regulation, an important step towards a fairer and cleaner world economy will have been achieved.

We shouldn't be encouraging people to set up Cayman Island funds.