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" I am - and have always been - a Methodist. "
J. Paul Getty
Am
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" A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. "
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" I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. "
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Brought
Era
" My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols. "
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Symbols
Status
" How does one measure the success of a museum? "
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Museum
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" There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. "
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" There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. "
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Royal
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" Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. "
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Profit
Notorious
Industries
" Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. "
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People
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" Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. "
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Nostalgia
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" To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. "
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Succeed
Business
" There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection. "
J. Paul Getty
Collection
Liked
Obtain
" My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. "
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Fine
Fine Art
Art
" Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich. "
J. Paul Getty
Governments
Rich
Soak
" I can afford to say what I wish. "
J. Paul Getty
Afford
I Wish
I Can
" 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. "
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Feel
People
Work
" The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. "
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Business
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Inherit
" What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. "
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Career
Great
Business
" If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. "
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Your
Man
Rich
" The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. "
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Great
Prosperity
Foundations
" Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s. "
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Early
1920s
Friends
" I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. "
J. Paul Getty
Kennedy
Absolutely
Intention
" Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. "
J. Paul Getty
Experience
Rhetoric
Learned
" If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. "
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Count
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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. "
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Failure
Regret
Just
" 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. "
J. Paul Getty
Freedom
Rest
My Life
" The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. "
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Born
Way
Circumstances
" I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. "
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Cynic
Born
Pessimist
" I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them. "
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Deep
Company
Always
" In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. "
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Your
Change
Experience
" Five wives can't all be wrong. "
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Five
Wrong
Wives