J. Paul Getty Quotes
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There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
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There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
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There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.
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I find all this money a considerable burden.
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Some people find oil. Others don't.
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Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.
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Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.
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Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.
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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…
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Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.
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...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…
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I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.
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There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.
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I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.
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You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.
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Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.
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Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.
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Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.
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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…
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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…
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