J. Paul Getty

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

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

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.