Quotes by J. Paul Getty

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.