J. Paul Getty
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train - Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
I would rather make one percent of a hundred men's efforts than one hundred percent of my own. This way if ten get sick and ten get run over by a truck, I still have eighty percent of my income.
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.
If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves.
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
If you can actually count your money you are not really a rich man.