J. Paul Getty

United States
15 Dec 1892 // 6 Jun 1976
Industrialist

I think a man is a business failure who lets his family life interfere with his business record... business is no place for him.

Quoted in Getty on Getty (1989)

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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
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."
Essays