The best Quotes by Jean Paul Getty

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

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

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

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

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Weaklings must lie.

While it's not very Minnesotan to brag, I've got to brag on our state a little here: We were just ranked #1 in the country for health care.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

Ted: "It's freezing out there. Where's your coat?"
Robin: "Ted, I'm Canadian. I don't need a coat. This kind of weather is nothing for me."
Marshall: "Yeah. This is like a spring day back in Minnesota."

Minnesota, I love you snow much!

Minnesota Forecast. Today: Sun. Tomorrow: Snow. Next Day: Tornado, probably.

Minnesota girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.

Most places would call it a crippling snowstorm. In Minnesota, we call it Tuesday.

Another way of enjoying Minnesota is to move to Wisconsin.

You can leave Minneapolis, but it will never leave you.

I like Hollywood. I just like Minneapolis a little bit better.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

You're never too old to be young.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

A woman can be gorgeous at 19, charmimg at 29, but only at 39 she is irresistible for the rest of her life. And no woman that has been irresistible, ever turns older than 39.

The white guys who are really into Japanese culture seem like a trend started by Japan's military.
If in 1945, Japan had said "America we surrender, but one day your grandsons will pleasure themselves to a cartoon octopus", the US troops would've laughed.
Who's laughing now?

1955 Doc Brown: "No wonder this circuit failed. It says, 'Made in Japan'."
1985 Marty: "What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan!"

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.

I like my money where I can see it - hanging in my closet!

Cinderella is proof that a new pair of shows can change your life.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks.

I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Danger? I look on the wild side. I laugh in the face of danger!

Quick question. Is the whole "putting us in mortal danger" going to be a regular thing?

Not all lies are bad, just as the truth is not always good.

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.