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" The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. "
J. Paul Getty
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" Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. "
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" I buy when other people are selling. "
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" My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing. "
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" I can afford to say what I wish. "
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" If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. "
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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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" Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. "
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" Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. "
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" I've never been one to bet on the weather. "
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" I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. "
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" I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. "
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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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" Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. "
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" You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred. "
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" The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. "
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" 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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" Five wives can't all be wrong. "
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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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" 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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" During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. "
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" Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich. "
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" Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. "
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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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" What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. "
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" I am - and have always been - a Methodist. "
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" No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. "
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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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" Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s. "
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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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