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" A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. "
Hatred
Always
Been
" A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. "
Contract
Business
Marriage
" Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. "
People
Airplane
Marriage
" Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. "
Ages
Value
Through
" Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock. "
Carry
Price
Ability
" During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. "
Association
Friendship
Business
" Five wives can't all be wrong. "
Five
Wrong
Wives
" Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. "
Success
Early
Rise
" 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? "
You
Company
Like
" Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich. "
Governments
Rich
Soak
" How does one measure the success of a museum? "
Does
Museum
Success
" I am - and have always been - a Methodist. "
Am
I Am
Methodist
" I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity. "
Nor
Am
Ever
" I buy when other people are selling. "
Business
Buy
People
" I can afford to say what I wish. "
Afford
I Wish
I Can
" If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. "
Your
Man
Rich
" If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. "
Count
Money
Your
" If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. "
Problem
You
Your
" 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. "
Failure
Regret
Just
" I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. "
Kennedy
Absolutely
Intention
" I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them. "
Deep
Company
Always
" 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. "
Feel
People
Work
" In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people. "
People
Politeness
Japan
" In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. "
Your
Change
Experience
" 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. "
Existence
Creation
Wealth
" I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. "
Cynic
Born
Pessimist
" I've never been one to bet on the weather. "
Weather
Been
Bet
" 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. "
Freedom
Rest
My Life
" I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. "
Thrift
Brought
Era
" Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s. "
Early
1920s
Friends
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