You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.

I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

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.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.