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.

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

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.

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.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

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.’

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.