The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.

People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.