To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
—J. Paul Getty
Topics: Knowledge, Business
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
—J. Paul Getty
Topics: Security
Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
—J. Paul Getty
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
Topics: Marriage
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or “get rich” in business by being a conformist.
—J. Paul Getty
Topics: Accomplishment, Strength
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
Topics: Work
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
—J. Paul Getty
Topics: Uncertainty, Risk
My father said: “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.”
—J. Paul Getty
Topics: Business, Negotiation
If you can actually count your money, then you’re not a rich man.
—J. Paul Getty
Topics: Money
I buy when other people are selling.
—J. Paul Getty
Topics: Business
The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. 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.
—J. Paul Getty
Topics: Act, Habits, Practice, Business, Achieve, Habit, Desire, Success, Sin
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
—J. Paul Getty
Topics: Money
There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
—J. Paul Getty
Topics: Act
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
Topics: Fortune, Excellence
I’ve never been one to bet on the weather.
—J. Paul Getty
Topics: Weather
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
—J. Paul Getty
Topics: Opportunity
If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.
—J. Paul Getty
Topics: Wealth
It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied on to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied on in every other way. He places value – not a price – on himself and his principles. And that, in the final analysis, is the measure of anyone’s sense of values – and of the true worth of any man.
—J. Paul Getty
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
—J. Paul Getty
Topics: Experience
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
—J. Paul Getty
Topics: Rightness, Inheritance, Right, Business
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