Quotes from 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?

I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money, producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

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

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

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

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

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

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

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.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

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

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

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.

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