J. Paul Getty: The Real Story Behind The Man With All The Money In The World

Getty Made Some Risky Moves During The Depression

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Perhaps out of determination to prove his father wrong, J. Paul Getty made major moves as president of Getty Oil Company. Even throughout the Great Depression, Getty managed to maintain his wealth by investing his resources and buying up oil stocks at low prices, which paid off big time. According to The New York Times, Getty once said, “I was fortunate due to my father’s foresight and my good luck. In the Depression, I did what the experts said one should not do. I was a very big buyer of oil company stocks.”