Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

Philanthropy is activism.

A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.