“I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.”

The secret now is to be disciplined.

I wish I could run this company myself’ — to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.

I love art, I collect mostly modern art.

I got my first job the old-fashioned way.

It’s so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

Every venture capitalist says at some point.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it’s a constitution that’s the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it’s the most generous nation in the world.

I’ve gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it’s straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.

I want to design jewelry for girls and guys, I’ma spread it out, but I’ma design, probably when I’m just designing furniture and buildings, I’ll probably being the jewelry thing, too.

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.

To every door that closed on me: I am coming back to buy the building.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn’t keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.