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Paul Getty
American
Businessman
About the author
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Control
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Work
#Success
#Oil
#Formula
Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Profit
My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Love
#Art
My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Wealth
You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Man
#Class
#Encouraging
#Hatred
#Brotherhood
You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Prosperity
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Career
#Business
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#American
#Prosperity
Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Nostalgia
Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Friends
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Observation
#Experience
#Change
#Rhetoric
I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Being
#Creation
#Pride
#Wealth
#Existence
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Art
#Beauty
The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Majority
#Wealth
There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#World
#Cities
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Circumstances
#Events
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Men
#Emotions
#Nature
#Women
#Temperament
I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Chastity
Five wives can't all be wrong.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Wrong
#Wives
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Business
#Friendship
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Ability
#Control
#Company
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#People
#Marriage
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Business
#Marriage
#Agreement
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Failure
#Nature
#Hatred
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Deep
#Women
#Company
I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Intention
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.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Life
#Freedom
#Rest
#Choice
#Father
I am - and have always been - a Methodist.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#People
#Nature
#Politeness
Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
I can afford to say what I wish.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
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.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#People
#Work
#Ability
#Marriage
#Envy
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Cynic
My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Virtue
I've never been one to bet on the weather.
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Weather
How does one measure the success of a museum?
Paul Getty,
American
Businessman
#Success
#Measure