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J. Paul Getty
American
Businessman
Born:
Dec 15
,
1892
Died:
Jun 6
,
1976
Been
Business
Rich
Success
Work
You
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
Success
Work
Work Hard
Early Work
Strike
Rise
Oil
Formula
Hard
Early
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
Rights
Meek
Earth
Mineral
Shall
Inherit
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
You
Business
Problem
Owe
Bank
Your
Million
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
J. Paul Getty
Finance
You
Money
Like
Smells
Around
Spread
Manure
My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
J. Paul Getty
Love
Art
Increased
Saw
Fine
Fine Art
See
More
Wanted
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
J. Paul Getty
You
Man
Money
Rich
Count
Rich Man
Then
Your
Actually
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
J. Paul Getty
Leadership
Employees
Generally
He
Employer
Gets
Deserves
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
J. Paul Getty
Change
Experience
Enemy
Worst
Rapid
Could
Times
Your
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
Success
Work
Early Work
Late
Strike
Rise
Oil
Formula
Success Is
Early
I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty
Buy
Business
People
Other
Selling
You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
J. Paul Getty
You
Prosperity
About
Thrift
Without
Discouraging
Cannot
Bring
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty
Success
Business
Achieve
Rich
Lasting
Possibly
No-One
Real
Get
Any
Being
Conformist
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty
You
Money
Count
Dollars
Your
Billion
Billion Dollars
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J. Paul Getty
Business
Top
Possible
Must
About
Individual
Reach
Know
Succeed
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
J. Paul Getty
Change
Experience
Observation
Learned
Rhetoric
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
J. Paul Getty
Nature
People
Immensely
Industrious
Politeness
Impressed
Japan
Japanese
Japanese People
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
J. Paul Getty
Great
Prosperity
Great American
Shaky
Roaring
Period
Built
Were
American
Which
Twenties
Foundations
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
J. Paul Getty
Art
Beauty
Endeavor
Few
Lasting
Find
Real
Human
Products
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
J. Paul Getty
Control
Carry
Ability
Price
Does
Stock
Company
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J. Paul Getty
Value
Books
Through
Like
Passed
Proverbs
Chief
Esteem
Which
Stamp
Ages
Receive
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
J. Paul Getty
Business
Would
Would-Be
Triumph
Uncertainty
Without
Greatest
Dull
Off
Even
Element
Routine
Bringing
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
Future
Man
Better
Faster
Fingertips
More
Almost
Almost Anything
Economically
Doing
His
Up
Anything
Means
Producing
Fortune
Who
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
J. Paul Getty
Events
Made
Rich
Cynical
Way
Circumstances
Born
Sceptical
I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
J. Paul Getty
Virtue
Considered
Brought
Thrift
Still
Era
Up
I've never been one to bet on the weather.
J. Paul Getty
Weather
Bet
Never
Been
How does one measure the success of a museum?
J. Paul Getty
Success
Does
How
Measure
Museum
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