Best Quotes by J. Paul Getty (Top 10)

  1. Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
  2. In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
  3. If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
  4. The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
  5. 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.
  6. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
  7. The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
  8. Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
  9. There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
  10. 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.