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 GettyIf you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.
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 GettyPatience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.
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 Getty