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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
J. Paul Getty
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J. Paul Getty
Age: 83 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 1
Art Collector
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Jay Paul Getty
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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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Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.
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Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.
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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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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 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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Some people find oil. Others don't.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.
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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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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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....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.
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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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I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
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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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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.
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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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