Quotes by Paul Getty

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

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

“If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.”

“If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.”

“How does one measure the success of a museum?”

“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.”

“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?”

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

“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 historic...”

“The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.”

“I buy when other people are selling.”

“If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.”

“The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.”

“In some respects, a society in which the members reach a universal level in which they are anonymous drones by choice is even more frightening than one in which they are forced to be so against the...”

“In my own opinion, the average American's cultural shortcomings can be likened to those of the educated barbarians of ancient Rome. These were barbarians who learned to speak--and often to read and...”

“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.”

“My evanescent anarchistic tendencies are purely classical. I use the word anarchist in the sense in which it was understood by the ancient Greeks. They, of course, accepted the anarchist as a fairl...”

“The majority is by no means omniscient just because it is the majority. In fact, I've found that the line which divides majority opinion from mass hysteria is often so fine as to be virtually invis...”

“There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and refuse to conform. He'll be on his own, that's true, but while he will not have the security enjo...”

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