Paul Getty

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

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.

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

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

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

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.

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

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