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" The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps. "

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" I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast. "

" Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings. "

" I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally. "

" The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school. "

" I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on. "

" You always learn lessons in business. "

" Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No. "

" Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way. "

" I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles. "

" Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline. "

" Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid. "

" In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not. "

" To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it. "

" I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University. "

" People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views. "

" Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it. "

" It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained. "

" Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before. "

" Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education. "

" How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook. "

" A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me. "

" Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge. "

" What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience. "

" Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge. "

" If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist. "

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" I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven. "

" Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty. "

" Being a Midwesterner, I know that many of the middle-class manufacturing jobs that had been at the heart of our economy are either gone or going, and they're not coming back. "

" I believe in two things: One, Andrew Carnegie said, 'He who dies with wealth dies in shame.' And someone once said, 'He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.' "