Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

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 times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

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

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

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.

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.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.