J. Paul Getty

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.

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

I buy when other people are selling.

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

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

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

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

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

J. Paul Getty sent the following to a magazine requesting a short article explaining his success: "Some people find oil. Others don't."