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.

Rise early, work hard, strike oil.

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

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

Money frees you from things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money comes in handy.

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

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles’ heel. But if you don’t need money and you don’t need fame, then you’re free.

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

Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.

I say, not in a braggadocios way, I’ve made billions and billions of dollars dealing with people all around the world.

Money gives me the creeps and mildly embarrasses me. I get paid too much anyway.

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.

The point is, you can never be too greedy.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

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.

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

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.