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- Measure
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- Nov 07, 2020
How does one measure the success of a museum?
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
- Nov 07, 2020
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
- Buy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I buy when other people are selling.
- Employer
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- Nov 07, 2020
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
- Leads
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
- Nov 07, 2020
My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
- I Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can afford to say what I wish.
- Deny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
- Governments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
- Bet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been one to bet on the weather.
- Least
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
- Nov 07, 2020
Five wives can't all be wrong.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
- Binding
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- Nov 07, 2020
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
- Majority
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- Nov 07, 2020
The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
- Industries
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020