Paul Getty Quotes
Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.
Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
