J. Paul Getty
J. Paul Getty
Jean Paul Getty KBEwas an American industrialist. He founded the Getty Oil Company, and in 1957 Fortune magazine named him the richest living American, while the 1966 Guinness Book of Records named him as the world's richest private citizen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion. At his death, he was worth more than $2 billion. A book published in 1996 ranked him as the 67th richest American who ever lived, based on his wealth as a percentage of the gross national...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth15 December 1892
CityMinneapolis, MN
CountryUnited States of America
Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.
There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
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.
You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.
Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.
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.
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.
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
People who don't respect money don't have any.
Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.