Wealth is not about getting rich because any fool can get rich, as so often happens, but it is how you deal with being wealthy. When you are rich all the choices in the world open up to you, and you find yourself then looking into the abyss of choices and decisions to make, and the consequences of those choices you make.
The choices you make when you are wealthy too often destroy men, marriages and worst of all…wealth too often destroys the children from those marriages. This is why some wealthy men prefer beautiful things, like art and sculpture, to people because people will turn on you and misrepresent themselves and turn parasitic, compared to fine, authentic, valuable, beautiful artistic things that never lie…beautiful things are, for the most part, constant totally unlike people by comparison. Beautiful things always remain as you see them.
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: J. PAUL GETTY, THE WORLD’S FIRST BILLIONAIRE DEVELOPING SAUDI ARABIAN OIL AND CREATING THE FIRST SUPER TANKER TO SEND SAUDI OIL AROUND THE WORLD