...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous.
J. Paul GettyBuy 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.
J. Paul GettyThere is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.
J. Paul GettyThe beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.
J. Paul GettySome of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of news and the discussion of matters of lasting importance. ...Radio, television, motion pictures, popular books - all contribute...to...the stifling of dissent on all but the most banal levels. ...a renunciation of the most basic and precious of democratic principles.
J. Paul GettyYou must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.
J. Paul GettyThere may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
J. Paul GettyPatience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.
J. Paul GettyMy 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 GettyTo succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J. Paul GettyBooks, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J. Paul GettyThe 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.
J. Paul GettyThere are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
J. Paul GettyGoing 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?
J. Paul GettyMoney is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.
J. Paul GettyOnce you have made it, you will understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You will want and need other games to play, so you will look for other ventures to hold your interest.
J. Paul GettyIn my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.
J. Paul GettyBuild wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.
J. Paul GettyI have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.
J. Paul GettyWithout the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
J. Paul GettyThe #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.
J. Paul GettyI 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 GettyA sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.
J. Paul GettyI would rather receive one percent of the income of 100 men, than 100% of the income of one man.
J. Paul GettyIn business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.
J. Paul GettyToday's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.
J. Paul GettyNo one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul GettyEach [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.
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