What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

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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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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.

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

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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

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The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.

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