If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

I find all this money a considerable burden.

Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.

In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.