J Paul Getty Quotes

In a few weeks my girlfriend and I are going to visit the Getty Villa in Malibu. I’ve been to the Museum, but never the Villa - so I’m excited to see it. If you have never been to the Getty Museum, you should really pay a visit the next time you are in the LA area. Even if you’re not an art buff, the architecture and views are absolutely spectacular!

An interesting note about J Paul Getty: Getty wrote a very successful book entitled How to be Rich. Note that it was not “How to get Rich.” His oil business was handed to him by his father, who started the business. Getty fully acknowledges this in his autobiography, “I enjoyed the advantage of being born into an already-wealthy family, and when I began my business career I was subsidized by my father. While I did make money-and quite a bit of it-on my own, I doubt if there would be a ‘Getty Empire’ today if I had not taken over my father’s thriving oil business after his death. (Getty, 1976, pg.336).” source

I was doing a little research on J Paul Getty today, and thought I’d post some of his famous quotes (below).

I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty

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.
J. Paul Getty

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.
J. Paul Getty

If you can actually count your money, then you’re not a rich man.
J. Paul Getty

If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty

If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.
J. Paul Getty

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
J. Paul Getty

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
J. Paul Getty

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or “get rich” in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
J. Paul Getty

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
J. Paul Getty

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.
J. Paul Getty

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
J. Paul Getty

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
J. Paul Getty

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J. Paul Getty

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