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