J. Paul Getty Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

The 1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.

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

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

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

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.