Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

There have been people.. ever since I've had any kind of position in the world.. who have accused me of being ruler of the world. I have to say that I think for the large part, I would have to decide to describe them as crack pots. It makes no sense whatsoever, and isn't true, and won't be true, and to raise it as a serious issue seems to me to be irresponsible.