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J. Paul Getty
American
Businessman
About the author
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
J. Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Routine
#Business
#Uncertainty
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Success
#Being
#Business
Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
J. Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Oil
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
J. Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#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,
American
Businessman
#Man
#Future
#Fortune
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#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,
American
Businessman
#Succeed
#Business
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
J. Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Money
I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#People
#Selling
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
J. Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Enemy
#Experience
#Change
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
J. Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Security
#Man
#Men
#Risk
#Fortune
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J. Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#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,
American
Businessman
#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,
American
Businessman
#Success
#Failure
#Regret
#Hate
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
J. Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Man
#Money
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#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,
American
Businessman
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Work
#Oil
#Formula