J. Paul Getty quotes:

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  • Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

  • 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.

  • Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

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

  • Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

  • If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

  • If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  • I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

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

  • The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  • In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  • During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

  • My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

  • 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.

  • In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

  • 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.

  • There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

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

  • I buy when other people are selling.

  • A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

  • The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

  • ...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...

  • I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

  • A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

  • I've never been one to bet on the weather.

  • 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.

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

  • The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

  • If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

  • I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

  • The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

  • Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

  • 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?

  • There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

  • A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure,

  • Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.

  • 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.

  • It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied upon in every other way.

  • I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

  • Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

  • The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.

  • There is obviously something wrong with our educational system. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that there might even be something wrong with at least some of our schoolteachers. But heaven help anyone daring to express such heretical views.

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

  • I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

  • What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

  • I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

  • I am - and have always been - a Methodist.

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

  • Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

  • I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

  • Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.

  • You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.

  • My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

  • You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

  • My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

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

  • My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

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

  • I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

  • In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.

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

  • A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

  • Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.

  • The key to wealth is to learn how to make money while you sleep

  • Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.

  • Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.

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

  • 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.

  • There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

  • A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.

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

  • ...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.

  • People who don't respect money don't have any.

  • There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.

  • ....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.

  • Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.

  • To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.

  • Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.

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

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

  • I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.

  • 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.

  • Some people find oil. Others don't.

  • 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.

  • If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves.

  • I find all this money a considerable burden.

  • I would rather receive one percent of the income of 100 men, than 100% of the income of one man.

  • Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.

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