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

“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.”

“How does one measure the success of a museum?”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.”