J. Paul Getty Quotes

J. Paul Getty was a famous American born businessman, philanthropist, billionaire and art collector. He is best known for being one of the richest men in the world. His art collection included paintings from artists like Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, Thomas Gainsborough, Rembrandt, Edgar Degas and Claude Monet. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California in the United States now houses the Getty art collection. The J. Paul Getty Trust is one of the largest art institutes in the world with a $7.7 billion USD endowment in 2020.

Mini biography: Born Jean Paul Getty on the 15th of December, 1892 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America. His mother was Sarah Catherine McPherson and his father George Getty was a lawyer and an oil industry entrepreneur. Getty married Jeanette Demont in 1923 and they divorced in 1926. He married his second wife Allene Ashby in 1926 and they divorced in 1928. His third wife Adolphine Helmle was married in 1928 and divorced in 1932. His fourth wife Ann Rork was married in 1932 and divorced in 1936. His fifth wife Louise Dudley Lynch was married in 1939 and divorced in 1958. The businessman and art collector died on the 6th of June, 1976 in Sutton Place near Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom at the age of 83. J. Paul Getty is buried at the Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, California, USA.

List of Famous J. Paul Getty Quotes

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

The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges. J. Paul Getty

One needs only to remember that a groove may be safe–but that, as one wears away at it, the groove becomes first a rut and finally a grave. J. Paul Getty

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips. J. Paul Getty

There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and refuse to conform. He’ll be on his own, that’s true, but while he will not have the security enjoyed by those who do conform, there will be no limits to what he may achieve. J. Paul Getty

In some respects, a society in which the members reach a universal level in which they are anonymous drones by choice is even more frightening than one in which they are forced to be so against their will. When human beings relinquish their individuality and identity of their own volition, they are also relinquishing their claim to being human. J. Paul Getty

There is obviously something wrong with our educational system. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that there might even be something wrong with at least some of our schoolteachers. But heaven help anyone daring to express such heretical views. J. Paul Getty

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man. J. Paul Getty

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

If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem. J. Paul Getty

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights. J. Paul Getty

My evanescent anarchistic tendencies are purely classical. I use the word anarchist in the sense in which it was understood by the ancient Greeks. They, of course, accepted the anarchist as a fairly respectable–if somewhat vehement–opponent of government encroachment on the individual’s rights to think and act freely. It is in this sense that I glimpse myself as an anarchist–regretting the growth of government and the ever-increasing trend toward regulation and, worst of all, standardization of human activity. J. Paul Getty

In my own opinion, the average American’s cultural shortcomings can be likened to those of the educated barbarians of ancient Rome. These were barbarians who learned to speak–and often to read and write–Latin. They acquired Roman habits of dress and deportment. Many of them handily mastered Roman commercial, engineering and military techniques–but they remained barbarians nonetheless. They failed to develop any understanding, appreciation or love for the art and culture of the great civilization around them. J. Paul Getty

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