Quotes by J. Paul Getty - Page 2

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Business
Way
Wealth
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If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.
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Oil
Pay
Up Early
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There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Facts
Ideas
May
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
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Circumstances
Cynical
Sceptical
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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
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Work
Business
Men
Fortune
Hundred
Risk
Security
Willing
Work Men Man
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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
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Cities
Obtain
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I would rather receive one percent of the income of 100 men, than 100% of the income of one man.
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Men
Income
Percent
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I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.
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Needs
People
Wealth
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In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.
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Art
Individual
Opinion
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You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.
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Overcoming Adversity
Stress
Tension
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Art
Beauty
Endeavor
Lasting
Products
Few
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No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
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Inspirational
Success
Business
Achieve
Conformist
Lasting
Real
Rich
Possibly
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Business
Money
Funny Inspirational
Motivation
Problem
Bank
You
Owe
Million
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Great
Built
Great American
Prosperity
Roaring
Twenties
American
Period
Foundations
Shaky
Which
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Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Manure
Sells
Spread
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Enjoyed
Long Lasting
Formed
Friendships
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Inspirational
Journey
Knowledge
Business
Individual
Self Improvement
Succeed
Possible
Reach
Top
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You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.
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Essentials
Growth
Risk
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The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Goods
Majority
Overwhelming
Produce
Wealth
Consists
Rated
Services
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Creation
Existence
Pride
Wealth
Uses
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Men And Women
Temperament
Nature Men Women
Women Are
Emotions
Nature Women Men
Responses
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Marriage
Agreement
Binding
Business Always Me
Believed
Contract
Sticking
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Age
Book
Esteem
Reading
Ages
Chief
Passed
Proverbs
Receive
Stamp
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In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Impressed
Industrious
Japan
Politeness
Immensely
Japanese People
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There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Opportunity
Businessman
Oppurtunity
Profit
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Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Business Success
Failing
Wealth
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During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Friendship
Association
Grew
Onassis
Close
Formed
Several
Ventures
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Endure
Envy
Work Marriage People
Happily
Marriage Work
Save
Toward
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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Change
Business
Dull
Risk
Routine
Triumph
Uncertainty
Bringing
Element
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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.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Marriage
Failure
Hate
Just One
Millions
Regret
Gladly
Marriages
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Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.
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Jealous
Women
Aversion
Wife
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Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Marriage
Airplane
Passengers
Rushing
Catch
Couples
Sit
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Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.
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Business
Money
Successful
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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.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Men
Excellence
Faster
Fingertips
Fortune
Mean
Almost Anything
Economically
Producing
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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?
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Work
Company
Getting High
Hours
Miles
Sitting
Sitting Still
Train
Getting
Still
Hour
Large
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Art
Generations
Real
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A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
Business Success
Discipline
Practice
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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 / Industrialist
Work
Business
Guidelines
Retail
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Once you have made it, you will understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You will want and need other games to play, so you will look for other ventures to hold your interest.
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Challenges
Games
Play
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My father said, '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'.
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Inspirational
Business
Money
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In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.
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Attitude
Majority
Moving
Tides
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The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. 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.
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Business
Discipline
Practice
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...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous.
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Dark
Numbers
Views
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Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of news and the discussion of matters of lasting importance. ...Radio, television, motion pictures, popular books - all contribute...to...the stifling of dissent on all but the most banal levels. ...a renunciation of the most basic and precious of democratic principles.
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Age
Book
Dark
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Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.
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Dark
Focus
Pressure Groups
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