J. Paul Getty Quotes

• Some people find oil, some don’t.

  J. Paul Getty

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• If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.

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

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• 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

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  Tags in Bank, Owe, Your, Problem, Million

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

  J. Paul Getty

  Topics in Art, Love

  Tags in Increased, Wanted, Saw, See, More, Fine

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

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  Tags in Inherit, Meek, Mineral, Rights, Shall, Earth

• I buy when other people are selling.

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  Tags in Buy, Selling, Other

• The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

  J. Paul Getty

• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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

• 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.

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• I find all this money a considerable burden.

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

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

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

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

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

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Birth:	15th December, 1892
Death:	6th June, 1976
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Industrialist

About

Jean Paul Getty was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was an American industrialist. He founded the Getty Oil Company, and in 1957 Fortune magazine named him the richest living American, while the 1966 Guinness Book of Records named him as the world's richest private citizen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion. He studied at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1913, he obtained a diploma in Economics and Political Science from the University of Oxford.

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