J Paul Getty

Paul Getty- "No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist."


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

J Paul Getty

I buy when other people are selling.

J Paul Getty

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

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

J Paul Getty

Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.

J Paul Getty

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

J Paul Getty

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

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failures of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

J Paul Getty

If you can count your money, you don´t have a billion dollars.

J Paul Getty

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

J Paul Getty

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.

J Paul Getty

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

J Paul Getty

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.

J Paul Getty

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

J Paul Getty

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

J Paul Getty

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

J Paul Getty

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

J Paul Getty