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

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

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

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

I buy when other people are selling.

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

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

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.

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

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

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

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.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

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

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

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

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

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?