My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.

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

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

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.