J. Paul Getty Quotes

United States, Art Collector
December 15, 1892 – June, 6, 1976.

Jean Paul Getty (; December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American-British industrialist. He founded the Getty Oil Company, and in 1957 Fortune magazine named him the richest living American, while the 1966 Guinness Book of Records named him as the world's richest private citizen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion (approximately $9.05 billion in 2017). At his death, he was worth more than $6 billion (approximately $25.80 billion in 2017). A book published in 1996 ranked him as the 67th richest American who ever lived, based on his wealth as a percentage of the gross national product.

Also known as Autobiographer, Entrepreneur

There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.

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- World
- Collection
- Liked
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

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- Money
- You
- Finance

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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- People
- Work
- Marriage
Five wives can't all be wrong.

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- Wrong
- Five
- Wives
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

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- Men
- Women
- Nature
I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

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My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

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- Control
- Heads
- Royal

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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- Life
- Father
- Freedom
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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- Business
- Problem
- Bank
I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

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- Up
- Virtue
- Still
Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

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- Profit
- Industries
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

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- Long
- Women
- Deep
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

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- Real
- Art
- Beauty

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

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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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- Wealth
- Produce
- Majority
I buy when other people are selling.

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- People
- Business
- Selling
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

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- People
- Nature
- Japanese
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

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- Money
- Man
- Rich
I've never been one to bet on the weather.

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- Never
- Weather
- Bet

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

J. Paul Getty
- Work
- Success
- Work Hard
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

J. Paul Getty
- Experience
- Change
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

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- Work
- Men
- Man
You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.

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- You
- Without
- Prosperity