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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. "
J. Paul Getty
Feel
People
Work
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" Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. "
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" Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. "
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" In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people. "
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" If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. "
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" Five wives can't all be wrong. "
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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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" I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. "
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" Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it. "
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Whoever
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" The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. "
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" I am - and have always been - a Methodist. "
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I Am
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" I buy when other people are selling. "
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" Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. "
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Women
Nature
" Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich. "
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Rich
Soak
" The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. "
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Prosperity
Foundations
" I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity. "
J. Paul Getty
Nor
Am
Ever
" 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
" You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift. "
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Prosperity
Bring
Without
" I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. "
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Thrift
Brought
Era
" Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. "
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Experience
Rhetoric
Learned
" There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. "
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Who
Royal
Comprehension
" Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. "
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You
Smells
Finance
" A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. "
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Hatred
Always
Been
" 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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Reach
Succeed
Business
" My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols. "
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Symbols
Status
" I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. "
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Kennedy
Absolutely
Intention
" The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. "
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Human
Beauty
Art
" My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing. "
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Wealth
Subject
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" Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. "
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Uncertainty
Routine
" 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. "
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Creation
Wealth