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If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.
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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Entrepreneur
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Jay Paul Getty
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Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.
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The key to wealth is to learn how to make money while you sleep
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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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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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....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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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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There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
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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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I would rather receive one percent of the income of 100 men, than 100% of the income of one man.
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Some people find oil. Others don't.
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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 have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money producing things people need.
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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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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
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Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.
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Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.
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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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