#ty

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. ↗

— Paul Getty

#industries #notorious #operate #profit #their

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock. ↗

— Paul Getty

#carry #company #control #does #price

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. ↗

— Paul Getty

#been #endure #envy #feel #given

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

— Paul Getty

#consists #goods #investments #majority #overwhelming

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

— Paul Getty

#built #foundations #great #great american #period

We have some worse scenarios for which we need to prepare as companies. For the moment, we're planning for the worst, and the worst is now, and the car market is down more than 15 percent in France. There is so much uncertainty. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#companies #down #france #market #moment

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#council #enough #failure #i #maybe

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#change #consideration #courage #forget #just

We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#council #decided #decision #got #involved

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#every #his #identity #just #losing