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You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth. (J. Paul Getty)
A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure. View quote
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The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires. View quote
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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. View quote
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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? View quote
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I can afford to say what I wish. View quote
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. View quote
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Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. View quote
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. View quote
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. View quote
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it. (J. Paul Getty)
Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich. View quote
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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. View quote
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. View quote
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What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. View quote
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My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols. View quote
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing. View quote
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You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress. View quote
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To build wealth today, you must be in your own business. View quote
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You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred. View quote
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. (J. Paul Getty)
Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. View quote
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During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. View quote
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