When you first begin to make money and become a success, you say to yourself, ‘I'd better get all these things I wanted!’" because how fruitless it would be if you could afford these things and didn't get them. So you accumulate everything. And then you begin to realize that the materialistic things aren't of a great value. It's just getting them. Once you've got them, they lose all the greatness.

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ABC's 20/20, 1981

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