Quotes

I have tried to use my millions creatively. The golden bird, coming to life, has sometimes wriggled out of my hand and flown away.

[After donating the building housing his New York City art gallery to Fairleigh Dickinson University]: It's a very difficult problem for one person to support a museum. It was probably foolhardy for me to try - but then, fools rush in. Perhaps I should get one or two points for not selling it to the telephone company.

There are two ways of looking at the things I do. One way is the American way, to look at how much money they make. The other way is, what is it that I'm doing? What have I accomplished? You can't judge everything by its dollar value ... For the survival of capitalism, business just can't be business. It must have social awareness of the area in which it operates. Take somebody like Getty or Howard Hughes or H.L. Hunt. What are they doing with their money? They've missed the boat, in my opinion.