Famous Quotes

Quotes by Paul Getty

• A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
• A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
• Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
• During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
• 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?
• I buy when other people are selling.
• 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.
• I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
• I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
• If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
• If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
• Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
• My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
• My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
• No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
• Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
• The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
• The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
• 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 meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
• There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
• To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.