J. Paul Getty Quotes
"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist."
- J. Paul Getty
(Related: Business, Success, Being)
"Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it."
- J. Paul Getty
(Related: Oil)
"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."
- J. Paul Getty
(Related: Employees)
"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
(Related: Fortune, Future, Man)
"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."
- J. Paul Getty
(Related: Earth, Rights)
"To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business."
- J. Paul Getty
(Related: Business, Succeed)
"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells."
- J. Paul Getty
(Related: Money)
"I buy when other people are selling."
- J. Paul Getty
(Related: People, Selling)
"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy."
- J. Paul Getty
(Related: Experience, Change, Enemy)
"There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune."
- J. Paul Getty
(Related: Men, Fortune, Man, Risk, Security)
"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed."
- J. Paul Getty
(Related: Books, Value)
"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
(Related: Work, Company)
"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
(Related: Success, Failure, Hate, Regret)
"If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man."
- J. Paul Getty
(Related: Money, Man)
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
- J. Paul Getty
(Related: Money)
"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
"Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil."
- J. Paul Getty
(Related: Work, Formula, Oil)