Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die.. and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.

It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.

Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.