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J. Paul Getty Quotes

1892–1976 United States

Jean Paul Getty (December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company.

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

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

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'.

J. Paul Getty cited in: Alison Branagan (2009)

If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

Attributed The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing (2003)

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

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: J. Paul Getty (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.