J. Paul Getty

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Rise early, work hard, strike oil.

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

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

Use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.

I have never believed that prosperity is bad or something to be shunned.

I’m so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn’t understand, she had to explain: ‘That’s like three Mercedes.’ Then I understood.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Money and women. They’re two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money.

Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet

If you want to make a million you don’t have to understand money, what you have to understand is people’s fears about money.

Dogs have no money. Isn’t that amazing? They’re broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? … No pockets.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

I don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

I rob banks because that’s where the money is.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions – he had money, too.

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

To make a million, start with $900,000.