Paul Getty Quotes
Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
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.
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied upon in every other way.
The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.
