I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.

Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.