J. Paul Getty famous quotes

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Inspirational #Hard Work #Loving Life

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Change #Insightful #Enemy

In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Art #Opinion #Individual

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Money #Business #Powerful

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Leadership #Wisdom #Employment

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Money #Smell #Saving

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Men #Effort

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Business #Succeed #Individual

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Funny Inspirational #Business #Motivation

The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him-and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Business #Practice #Appreciate

Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Business Success #Wealth #Failing

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Way #Wealth #Deals

Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Business #Moving #Waiting

The key to wealth is to learn how to make money while you sleep
-- J. Paul Getty

#Sleep #Keys #Wealth

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Business #Rights #Earth

Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Funny #Children

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.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Money #Business #Successful

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Opportunity #Profit #Businessman

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?
-- J. Paul Getty

#Work #Sitting #Getting High

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Money #Men #Rich

I buy when other people are selling.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Inspirational #Business #People

Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Skills #People #Classroom

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Animal #Oil #Totems

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.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Mean #Men #Excellence

I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.
-- J. Paul Getty

#People #Needs #Wealth

Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Mean #Men #Games

Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Dark #Focus #Special

To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Today #Wealth #Own Business

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Men #Blame #Failing

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Risk #Growth #Essentials

...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Dark #Views #Voice

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure,
-- J. Paul Getty

#Lasting Relationship #Lasting

In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Attitude #Moving #Majority

...The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries...
-- J. Paul Getty

#Art #Real #Generations

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Business #Work #Men

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Inspirational #Success #Business

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Change #Business #Risk

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.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Marriage #Regret #Hate

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Book #Age #Dignity

People who don't respect money don't have any.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Money #People

You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Money #Business #Trying

There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Ideas #May #Facts

I find all this money a considerable burden.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Burden #Possession

Some people find oil. Others don't.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Oil #People

Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Teacher #Retirement #Age

The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Business #Retail #Guidelines

Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Women #Jealous #Wife

Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of news and the discussion of matters of lasting importance. ...Radio, television, motion pictures, popular books - all contribute...to...the stifling of dissent on all but the most banal levels. ...a renunciation of the most basic and precious of democratic principles.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Book #Dark #Age

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Stress #Tension #Thrive

Once you have made it, you will understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You will want and need other games to play, so you will look for other ventures to hold your interest.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Games #Play #Challenges

Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Winning #Games #Benefits

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Emotional #Protect #Investors

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Oil #Pay #Strikes