If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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.
Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed
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.
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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."
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.
Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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.
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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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