All J. Paul Getty Quotes
- If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil. Ahead
- To build wealth today, you must be in your own business. Build
- ...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… Age
- 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… Age
- 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… Advertisers
- Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. Corny
- If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. Bank
- 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… Company
- In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. Change
- If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. Billion
- The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. Deserve
- There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. Able
- The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. Astronomy
- If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. Actually Count
- Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. Finance
- I buy when other people are selling. Business
- No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. Achieve
- Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. Bringing
- 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… All
- Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it. Animal
- 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… Almost Anything
- Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. Age
- To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. All
- 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… Business
- People who don't respect money don't have any. Any