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

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

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'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

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

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.