J. Paul Getty Zitate auf Englisch

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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

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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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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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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.

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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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Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.

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I've never been one to bet on the weather.

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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

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You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

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I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

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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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No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

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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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I am - and have always been - a Methodist.

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My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

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