“I am not a businessman, I am an artist.”

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

It’s only when the tide goes out that you discover who’s been swimming naked.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it’s a little like saving sex for your old age.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.

If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

If you aren’t thinking about owning a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up.

Remember that the stock market is a manic depressive.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Every day is a good day when you paint.

We want happy paintings. Happy paintings. If you want sad things, watch the news.

We artists are a different breed of people. We’re a happy bunch.

People might look at you a bit funny, but it’s okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.

There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.

When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

I think there’s an artist hidden at the bottom of every single one of us.