J. Paul Getty Quotes

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

"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."

"I buy when other people are selling."

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

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

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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