J. Paul Getty Quotes
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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I would rather receive one percent of the income of 100 men, than 100% of the income of one man.
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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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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?
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In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.
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If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.
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A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.
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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
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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'.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.
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Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.
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No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
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You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.
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In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.
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...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous.
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There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.
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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.
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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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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.
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Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of news and the discussion of matters of lasting importance. ...Radio, television, motion pictures, popular books - all contribute...to...the stifling of dissent on all but the most banal levels. ...a renunciation of the most basic and precious of democratic principles.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.
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I find all this money a considerable burden.
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If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves.
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