Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.Collection: Finance
My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.Collection: Art
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.Collection: Success
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.Collection: Money
I buy when other people are selling.Collection: Business
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.Collection: Business
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.Collection: Success
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?Collection: Work
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.Collection: Work
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.Collection: Business
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.Collection: Business
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.Collection: Experience
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.Collection: Art
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.Collection: Business
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Success
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.Collection: Marriage
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Marriage
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.Collection: Marriage
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.Collection: Leadership
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.Collection: Failure
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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.
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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.
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.