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
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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 beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.