Quotes by J. Getty

• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
• No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
• Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
• The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
• 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.
• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
• To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
• Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
• I buy when other people are selling.
• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
• There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
• Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
• If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
• If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
• Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.