J. Paul Getty
United States
15 Dec 1892 // 6 Jun 1976
Industrialist
15 Dec 1892 // 6 Jun 1976
Industrialist
Quotes
I've always thought that I had a great gift for being a beachcomber... if I could find someone who could do the work better than I could I would hire that man and take it easy myself.
I think a man is a business failure who lets his family life interfere with his business record... business is no place for him.
It's hard to make money in business; it's very difficult...and if your reward is relatively great, that's the way nature works. I don't see it's any more extraordinary for a man in business to accumulate a large fortune than a man in politics to attain high office.
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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."
Essays
Essays