J. Paul Getty

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

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

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.

There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.

Rules are meant to be broken.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot have, but perseverance all can have.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.

Selling is something we do for our clients – not to our clients.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.