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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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Work
Formula
Oil
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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Money
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
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Money
Man
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.
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Success
Failure
Hate
Regret
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?
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Work
Company
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Books
Value
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
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Men
Fortune
Man
Risk
Security
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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Experience
Change
Enemy
I buy when other people are selling.
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People
Selling
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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Money
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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Business
Succeed
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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Earth
Rights
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.
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Fortune
Future
Man
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
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Employees
Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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Oil