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I learned life from some good teachers.

My parents taught me the value of money and working hard. And I kind of got that in me intuitively.

It was a matter of not living lavishly but enjoying what you had, growing things with your hands, working hard, but not being tied to a nine-to-five job, and generally feeling that there's more to life than money.

I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'

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

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

At first, the only thing that I learned was to save. Then I learned about mutual fund, then later on direct stock investments. I also went into small businesses and even real estate.

I've made more money than I could spend in five lifetimes.

I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.