12 Quotes By Paul Getty


The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
Paul Getty on art

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

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
Paul Getty on beauty

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

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
Paul Getty on failure

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.
Paul Getty on freedom

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

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

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

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.
Paul Getty on marriage

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
Paul Getty on nature

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