A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
- Paul Getty Quote

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
- Paul Getty Quote

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
- Paul Getty Quote

Five wives can't all be wrong.
- Paul Getty Quote

How does one measure the success of a museum?
- Paul Getty Quote

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
- Paul Getty Quote

I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
- Paul Getty Quote

I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
- Paul Getty Quote

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
- Paul Getty Quote

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.
- Paul Getty Quote

I've never been one to bet on the weather.
- Paul Getty Quote

Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.
- Paul Getty Quote

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
- Paul Getty Quote

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
- Paul Getty Quote

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
- Paul Getty Quote

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
- Paul Getty Quote

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
- Paul Getty Quote

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
- Paul Getty Quote

There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
- Paul Getty Quote

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
- Paul Getty Quote

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
- Paul Getty Quote

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
- Paul Getty Quote