If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

J. Paul Getty

Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is

Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?"

Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.

Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.

To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.

To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.

Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.

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

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

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

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

Some people find oil. Others don't.

Some people find oil. Others don't.

I buy when other people are selling.

I buy when other people are selling.

Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.

Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.

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

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

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.

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

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

Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.

Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

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

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

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.