If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead – if you strike oil.
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
People who don’t respect money don’t have any.
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
The key to wealth is to learn how to make money while you sleep.
I buy when other people are selling.
Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.
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.
Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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?
Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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.
To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.
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.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or ‘get rich’ in business by being a conformist.
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.
In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.
I find all this money a considerable burden.