A real collector does not sell.

Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.

Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.

Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before.

At a time when all the other builders were selling homes with basements but without carports, we would sell homes without basements and with carports. This allowed us to provide a more appealing product at a lower price. In other words, we felt we would be giving customers greater value.

I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.