Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.’