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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

I'm a trader. Under the right circumstances, I'd consider a new boat. I'm not ruling it out.

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.

My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.

My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.