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

- Paul Getty

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

- Paul Getty

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

- Paul Getty

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

- Paul Getty

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

- Paul Getty

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

- Paul Getty

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

- Paul Getty

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

- Paul Getty

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

- Paul Getty