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There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.
If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.
There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
I would rather receive one percent of the income of 100 men, than 100% of the income of one man.
I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.
In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.
You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.
The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
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.
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
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.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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.
Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.
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.
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?
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.
A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.
The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.
Once you have made it, you will understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You will want and need other games to play, so you will look for other ventures to hold your interest.
My father said, 'You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals'.
In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.
The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him-and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.
...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous.
Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of news and the discussion of matters of lasting importance. ...Radio, television, motion pictures, popular books - all contribute...to...the stifling of dissent on all but the most banal levels. ...a renunciation of the most basic and precious of democratic principles.
Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.