J. Paul Getty Quotes
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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
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I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.
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I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
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In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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I've never been one to bet on the weather.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.