There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.
Interpretation
Building your own business is the most effective way to achieve significant financial success.
J. Paul Getty emphasizes that the most reliable path to substantial wealth is through entrepreneurship. Owning a business not only allows greater control over financial outcomes but also the potential for success that comes from innovation and personal investment in one's endeavors.
In practice
In a motivational speech about entrepreneurship.
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.
You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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.
Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
I financed and made my own films from the start. My path has been autonomous and independent, so I don't have any horror stories about glass ceilings and expectations and tense studio meetings.
Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
The same instincts that make us good students can make us lousy entrepreneurs.
Stop looking for the 'right' career, and start looking for a job. Any job. Forget about what you like. Focus on what's available. Get yourself hired. Show up early. Stay late. Volunteer for the scut work. Become indispensable. You can always quit later, and be no worse off than you are today.
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