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" What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. "
J. Paul Getty
Career
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" My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols. "
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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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" Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. "
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" A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. "
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" I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them. "
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" The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. "
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" Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. "
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Nostalgia
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" Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich. "
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Rich
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" Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it. "
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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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" I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. "
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" 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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