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J. Paul Getty Biography

Jean Paul Getty (/ˈɡɛti/; December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American-British industrialist. He founded the Getty Oil Company, and in 1957 Fortune magazine named him the richest living American, while the 1966 Guinness Book of Records named him as the world's richest private citizen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion (approximately $9.05 billion in 2017). At his death, he was worth more than $6 billion (approximately $25.80 billion in 2017). A book published in 1996 ranked him as the 67th richest American who ever lived, based on his wealth as a percentage of the gross national product.

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. . . Americans. . . automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. . . . (" The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous.

Dark, Numbers, Social, Subversion, View, Voice

Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.

Fertilizer, Manure, Sell, Spread

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Business, Inspirational, Know, Knowledge, Top

A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.

Business, Business Success, Discipline, Essential, Practice, Whenever

Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of news and the discussion of matters of lasting importance. . . . Radio, television, motion pictures, popular books - all contribute. . . to. . . the stifling of dissent on all but the most banal levels. . . . a renunciation of the most basic and precious of democratic principles.

Age, Book, Books, Dark, Discussion, Renunciation

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Business, Men, Risk, Security, Seeking, Work

Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. . . . Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities. . . In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.

Dark, Energies, Focus, Pressure Groups, Quibble, Trivia

The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.

Business, Employer, Guideline, Retail, Work

I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.

Money, Needs, People, Things, Wealth, Worked

. . . . remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.

Dollars, Remember, Used, Worth

The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him-and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

Achieve, Business, Discipline, Force, Practice

Once you have made it, you will understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You will want and need other games to play, so you will look for other ventures to hold your interest.

Business, Challenges, Games, Limited, Play, Understand

I buy when other people are selling.

Business, Buy, Inspirational, People, Selling

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

Businessman, Handsomely, Opportunities, Opportunity, Profit, Seize

Some people find oil. Others don't.

Oil, People

There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.

Facts, Hard, Ideas, May, Substitute

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Excellence, Faster, Future, Man, Mean, Men

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

Borrowed, Essential, Essentials, Growth, Risk, Take

I find all this money a considerable burden.

Burden, Considerable, Money, Possession

Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.

Business, Greatest, Moves, Moving, Time, Waiting

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