Paul Getty Quotes

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
Paul Getty

Art, Beauty, Human

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
Paul Getty

Failure, Nature, Hatred

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
Paul Getty

Art, Love, Wanted

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

Marriage, Before, Once

I've never been one to bet on the weather.
Paul Getty

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
Paul Getty

Cannot, Bring, Prosperity

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
Paul Getty

Cannot, Hatred, Class

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
Paul Getty

Success, Work, Late

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
Paul Getty

Profit, Inability, Notorious

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
Paul Getty

Change, Experience, Learned

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
Paul Getty

Marriage, Business, Contract

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
Paul Getty

Control, Company, Ability

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
Paul Getty

Friendship, Business, Close

Five wives can't all be wrong.
Paul Getty

Wrong, Five, Wives

Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
Paul Getty

How does one measure the success of a museum?
Paul Getty

Success, Measure, Museum

I am - and have always been - a Methodist.
Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
Paul Getty

Nor, Taken, Neither

I can afford to say what I wish.
Paul Getty

I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Paul Getty

Intention, Marrying, Absolutely

I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
Paul Getty

Women, Deep, Company

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

Marriage, Work, Envy

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

Put, Pride, Wealth

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
Paul Getty

Born, Pessimist, Deny

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

Life, Freedom, Father

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: September 7, 1932

Died: April 17, 2003

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