J. Paul Getty

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.

J. Paul Getty

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

J. Paul Getty

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.

J. Paul Getty

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

J. Paul Getty

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure.

J. Paul Getty

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

J. Paul Getty

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

J. Paul Getty

Five wives can’t all be wrong.

J. Paul Getty

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?

J. Paul Getty

I am – and have always been – a Methodist.

J. Paul Getty