“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.”
― J. Paul Getty
“The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.”
― J. Paul Getty
“In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.”
― J. Paul Getty
“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.”
― J. Paul Getty
“You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.”
― J. Paul Getty
“If you can actually count your money, then you’re not a rich man.”
― J. Paul Getty
“If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.”
― J. Paul Getty
“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.”
― J. Paul Getty
“Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.”
― J. Paul Getty
“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?”
― J. Paul Getty
“The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.”
― J. Paul Getty
“My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.”
― J. Paul Getty
“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.”
― J. Paul Getty
“Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.”
― J. Paul Getty
“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.”
― J. Paul Getty
“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.”
― J. Paul Getty
“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.”
― J. Paul Getty
“My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.”
― J. Paul Getty
“Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.”
― J. Paul Getty
“I can afford to say what I wish.”
― J. Paul Getty
“The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.”
― J. Paul Getty
“I buy when other people are selling.”
― J. Paul Getty
“To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.”
― J. Paul Getty
“Rhetoric and dialectics can’t change what I have learned from observation and experience.”
― J. Paul Getty
“Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.”
― J. Paul Getty
“Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.”
― J. Paul Getty
“Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.”
― J. 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.”
― J. Paul Getty
“I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.”
― J. Paul Getty
“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or ‘get rich’ in business by being a conformist.”
― J. Paul Getty
“Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.”
― J. Paul Getty
“Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.”
― J. Paul Getty
“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.”
― J. Paul Getty
“Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.”
― J. Paul Getty
“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.”
― J. Paul Getty
“You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.”
― J. Paul Getty
“My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.”
― J. Paul Getty
“I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.”
― J. Paul Getty
“Governments, of course, can – and do – soak the rich.”
― J. Paul Getty
“The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.”
― J. Paul Getty
“I’ve never been one to bet on the weather.”
― J. Paul Getty
“There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.”
― J. Paul Getty
“Five wives can’t all be wrong.”
― J. Paul Getty
“I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.”
― J. Paul Getty
“I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.”
― J. Paul Getty
“A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.”
― J. Paul Getty
“A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.”
― J. Paul Getty
“During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.”
― J. Paul Getty
“What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.”
― J. Paul Getty
“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.”
― J. Paul Getty
“There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.”
― J. Paul Getty
“The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.”
― J. Paul Getty
“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.”
― J. Paul Getty
“I am – and have always been – a Methodist.”
― J. Paul Getty
“I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.”
― J. Paul Getty
“How does one measure the success of a museum?”
― J. Paul Getty
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