J. Paul Getty

"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."

"Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil."

"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"

"How does one measure the success of a museum?"

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

"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."

"If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man."

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."

"In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people."

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

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

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

"There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune."

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

"What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career."

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