J. Paul Getty Quotes

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

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

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

How does one measure the success of a museum?

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

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

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

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

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

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

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

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

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.

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.

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.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

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

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.