J. Paul Getty

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.

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

Rise early, work hard, strike oil.

The best thing I know about me, is that I’m rich

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

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

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

It’s the same old story, all you think about is money.

Bankruptcy stared me in the face, but one thought kept me calm; soon I’d be too poor to need an anti-theft alarm.

I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died!

It’s like when you see all the slave movies. Why you gotta keep reminding us about slavery? Why don’t you show us – put Michael Jordan on a $20 bill.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

Don’t depend on anyone but yourself for providing financial security.

When I started to make more or less serious money – for those times – then, of course, I wanted to show everyone that life is different: it’s a new kind of life; we are earning this money. We wanted to pay taxes and live honestly.

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

Hobbies cost money but interests are free

We didn’t actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

I’ve been poor and I’ve been rich and rich is better.