Quotes by J. Paul Getty

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

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

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.

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

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

If you can actually count your money, then youre not a rich man.

If you can count your money, you dont have a billion dollars.

How does one measure the success of a museum?

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.