Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
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.
How does one measure the success of a museum?
I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
I am - and have always been - a Methodist.
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.
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.
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.
