J. Paul Getty Quotes about Business

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.

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

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'.

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.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

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

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

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

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

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

I buy when other people are selling.