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J. Paul Getty

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1. “Me the honor of saying that my entrepreneurial success in the oil business put me on par with his grandfather, John D. Rockefeller Sr. My response was that comparing me to John D. Sr. was like comparing a sparrow to an eagle. My words were not inspired by modesty, but by facts. John D. Rockefeller began his life poor. He began work as a lowly paid bookkeeper and worked and fought his way up the ladder. I enjoyed the advantage of being born into an already wealthy family, and when I began my business career, I was subsidized by my father. While I did make money and quite a bit of it on my own, I doubt if there would be a empire today if I had not taken over my father's thriving oil business after his death. Any attempt to compare the Rockefeller Empire with the Getty Empire is ridiculous. John D. Sr. went into the oil business at a time”

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