J. Paul Getty

United States
15 Dec 1892 // 6 Jun 1976
Industrialist

Quotes



Praise should always be given in public, criticism should always be given in private.
If businessmen always made the right decisions, business wouldn't be business.
The successful executive � the leader, the innovator � is the exceptional man.
Be an individualist � and an individual. You'll be amazed at how much faster you'll get ahead.
The truly successful businessman is essentially a dissenter, a rebel who is seldom if ever satisfied with the status quo.
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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