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" I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. "
J. Paul Getty
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" Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s. "
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" The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. "
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" A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. "
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" My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing. "
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" Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. "
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" A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. "
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" In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. "
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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? "
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" The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. "
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" I can afford to say what I wish. "
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" Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. "
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" 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. "
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" Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock. "
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" The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services. "
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" I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. "
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" Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich. "
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" I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. "
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" 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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