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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Paul Getty

Chastity

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

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

Paul Getty

Circumstances

Events

There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.

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Cities

World

The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.

Paul Getty

Wealth

Majority

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

Paul Getty

Art

Beauty

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

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

Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.

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Friends

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

Paul Getty

Nostalgia

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

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American

Prosperity

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

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Business

Career

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.

Paul Getty

Prosperity

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

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

Paul Getty

Wealth