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J. Paul Getty [1892-1976] American

Rank: 101
Businessman, Industrialist

Jean Paul Getty was an American 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.

Business, Marriage, Nature, Work, Art, Failure, Money, Success, Beauty, Change, Experience, Finance, Friendship, Future, Great, Leadership, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.	Success, Work	101
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.	Business	102
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.	Money	103
You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.		104
I can afford to say what I wish.		105
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.	Great	106
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.	Business	107
I buy when other people are selling.	Business	108
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.	Leadership	109
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.	Business	110
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.	Change, Experience	111
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.	Failure, Success	112
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.	Money	113
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.	Nature, Women	114
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.	Marriage	115
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.	Failure, Nature	116
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.	Nature	117
My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.	Art	118
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.	Art, Beauty	119
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.	Business	120
Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.		121
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.	Business, Marriage	122
I am - and have always been - a Methodist.		123
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.	Future	124
Five wives can't all be wrong.		125
I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.		126
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.	Friendship	201
How does one measure the success of a museum?		202
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?	Work	203
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.	Finance	204
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.		205
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.		206
Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.		207
I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.		208
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.		209
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.		210
You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.		211
My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.		212
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.		213
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.	Work	214
Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.		215
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.		216
My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.		217
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.		218
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.		219
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.	Marriage	220
The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.		221
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.		222
Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.		223
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.		224
I've never been one to bet on the weather.		225
There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.		226
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.		301
Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.		302
I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.		303
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.		304

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