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J Paul Getty Inspirational Quotes (34)

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I find all this money a considerable burden.
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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.
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In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.
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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.
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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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....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.
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The key to wealth is to learn how to make money while you sleep
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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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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.
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Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.
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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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If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves.
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There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
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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.
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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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Some people find oil. Others don't.
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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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.
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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
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There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.
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A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure.
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I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.
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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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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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