Top 100 Getty Quotes
#1. In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.
Michael Shnayerson
#2. I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.
Delphine Arnault
#3. The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
Elvis Costello
#4. J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty
you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
Edward Abbey
#5. Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J.Paul Getty
Alison Wong
#6. In some areas, [Getty Images has] more images than the rest of the market put together. But libraries are being built up at a terrific pace. A photographer in a lifetime will produce maybe a million images, and there are about 15,000 professionals at work out there.
Mark Getty
#7. Then, the stunningly white cubes that make up the Getty Museum. It's an architectural masterpiece funded by a venal billionaire's trust, housing third-rate art. Pure L.A.: might makes right and packaging is all. Traffic
Jonathan Kellerman
#8. Each year, tens of millions of museumgoers walk through the entrance of the Getty, or the Metropolitan or the Prado or the Hermitage, and never consider the possibility of having to arbitrate for themselves the authenticity of what they have come to see.
Peter Landesman
#9. There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
J. Paul Getty
#10. The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful.
Gordon Getty
#11. Estelle Getty used the language of a truck driver, or a sailor. Bea Arthur didn't wear shoes. Bea Arthur was a comic genius. Her timing was extraordinary.
Leland Orser
#12. People who don't respect money don't have any.
J. Paul Getty
#13. 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.
J. Paul Getty
#15. I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
Gordon Getty
#16. A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
J. Paul Getty
#17. I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.
Estelle Getty
#18. All ages serve and worship the same God, gather under the same gospel and add to the collective song that praises the faithfulness of God as each generation shares in his promises to us.
Keith Getty
#19. It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.
Gordon Getty
#20. Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.
Balthazar Getty
#21. The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
J. Paul Getty
#22. I've always loved the music ... My favorite kind of music is Christmas music and the only thing I love better music is my wife and daughters. So, hanging out with my wife and daughters and cuddling them will be pretty cool.
Keith Getty
#23. We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.
Keith Getty
#24. I don't think events in your life affect your music.
Gordon Getty
#25. Once you have made it, you will understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You will want and need other games to play, so you will look for other ventures to hold your interest.
J. Paul Getty
#26. Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.
J. Paul Getty
#27. I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.
Gordon Getty
#28. Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
J. Paul Getty
#29. The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
J. Paul Getty
#30. Let me tell you girls the three most important things I learned about life: Number one: Hold fast to your friends; number two: There's no such thing as security; and number three: Don't go see 'Ishtar.'
Estelle Getty
#31. 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.
J. Paul Getty
#33. No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty
#34. I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
J. Paul Getty
#35. There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and refuse to conform. He'll be on his own, that's true, but while he will not have the security enjoyed by those who do conform, there will be no limits to what he may achieve.
J. Paul Getty
#36. If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
J. Paul Getty
#37. I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.
J. Paul Getty
#39. I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
J. Paul Getty
#40. I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
J. Paul Getty
#41. The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
#42. During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
J. Paul Getty
#43. If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
J. Paul Getty
#44. sticks and stones might break your bones, but cement pays homage to tradition.
Estelle Getty
#45. In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
J. Paul Getty
#46. Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
J. Paul Getty
#47. I think it's of huge importance to us as worship leaders ... to ask ourselves these two questions: What were the words we put into our congregation's mouths, minds, and memories? And how well did our congregation sing? Our role is simply to be an accompaniment to them as they sing.
Keith Getty
#48. If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves.
J. Paul Getty
#49. In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.
J. Paul Getty
#50. There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.
J. Paul Getty
#51. I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.
Gordon Getty
#52. We live; we feel; we hurt. the world makes no exceptions.
Balthazar Getty
#54. If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.
Estelle Getty
#55. The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
J. Paul Getty
#56. In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.
J. Paul Getty
#57. I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
J. Paul Getty
#58. Remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.
J. Paul Getty
#59. When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.
Gordon Getty
#60. The message of some churches today seems to be, "Only sing if it appeals to your sense of style, or your demographic." Yet when we look at heaven, we see that every tribe and every nation will sing together.
Keith Getty
#61. The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.
J. Paul Getty
#62. There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
J. Paul Getty
#64. Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
J. Paul Getty
#65. Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
Balthazar Getty
#66. The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
J. Paul Getty
#67. Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.
J. Paul Getty
#68. I think just the above things. I think I wanted to learn from both cultures. So, I think the music is a little more reflective of the ... Catholic culture but the theology, obviously, is much more Reformational.
Keith Getty
#70. Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.
J. Paul Getty
#71. I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.
Gordon Getty
#72. There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.
Gordon Getty
#73. A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure,
J. Paul Getty
#74. I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.
Balthazar Getty
#75. My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.
Gordon Getty
#77. What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
J. Paul Getty
#78. Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
J. Paul Getty
#79. You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
J. Paul Getty
#80. Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.
J. Paul Getty
#81. I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.
Gordon Getty
#82. The most powerful medicine on the face of the Earth is not drug medications, dietary supplements, or invasive therapies; rather, it is a healthy lifestyle.
Getty Israel
#83. There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.
J. Paul Getty
#84. Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
J. Paul Getty
#85. When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
Balthazar Getty
#86. The family of God is the choir, and God is their audience.
Keith Getty
#87. You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.
J. Paul Getty
#88. My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
J. Paul Getty
#89. You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.
J. Paul Getty
#91. Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.
J. Paul Getty
#92. A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
J. Paul Getty
#93. My tendency is to be the guy in the back, even though I often end up being the guy in the front.
Balthazar Getty
#94. Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.
Gordon Getty
#95. Because I'm such a studio guy, I really trust my process. I really believe in myself in the studio.
Balthazar Getty
#96. Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.
Gordon Getty
#97. The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
J. Paul Getty
#98. Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
J. Paul Getty
#99. Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.
J. Paul Getty
#100. There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
J. Paul Getty
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