J. Paul Getty
United States
15 Dec 1892 // 6 Jun 1976
Industrialist
15 Dec 1892 // 6 Jun 1976
Industrialist
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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
Quoted in The Great Getty (1985)
The truly successful businessman is essentially a dissenter, a rebel who is seldom if ever satisfied with the status quo.
How to Be Rich (1965)
If you can actually count your money then you are not a really rich man.
Quoted in The Pendulum Years (1970)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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Essays