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.

Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.

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.

You always learn lessons in business.

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.

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.

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