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
I buy when other people are selling.
Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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.
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.
To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.
Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
...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.
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.
You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.