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At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
There's nothing that really motivates me anymore and demands that I get up in the morning. In the past it was Yves Saint Laurent.
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.
The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.
Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.
We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.
Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking
The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything.
We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.
It's my experience at Fiat and, now, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles that when there is a very strong CEO, it's a good thing to be chairman.
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.
As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.
Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it.
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.
We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.
Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.
A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.
No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.
The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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.
The IBC is a very deep reform. It is almost as deep a reform as GST or demonetisation. It changes the fundamental character of Indian business.
At the age of 9, I read David Copperfield by Dickens. At 14, I read War and Peace by Tolstoy. They're both books I have reread regularly since.
The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy
Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.
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.
Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.
It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard.
An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it.
The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.
I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.
We've weathered several periods when times weren't so good, and so I don't think we'll cancel our advertising now. In fact, we might even increase it.
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.
I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.
Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.
If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability