J. Paul Getty
J. Paul Getty
Jean Paul Getty KBEwas 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. At his death, he was worth more than $2 billion. A book published in 1996 ranked him as the 67th richest American who ever lived, based on his wealth as a percentage of the gross national...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth15 December 1892
CityMinneapolis, MN
CountryUnited States of America
Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.
A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves.
There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of news and the discussion of matters of lasting importance. ...Radio, television, motion pictures, popular books - all contribute...to...the stifling of dissent on all but the most banal levels. ...a renunciation of the most basic and precious of democratic principles.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous.
There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.
Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.
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.
Some people find oil. Others don't.
I find all this money a considerable burden.
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.