FridayMar 06, 2026
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Jean Paul Getty (December 15, 1892 - June 6, 1976) was an American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company.
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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.
J. Paul Getty sent the following to a magazine requesting a short article explaining his success: 'Some people find oil. Others don't.'
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even the greatest business triumph would be a dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying affair.
If you can count your money you don't have a billion dollars.
I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
I buy when other people are selling.
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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