Mark Getty

“If you have the good fortune of having money, it's almost an obligation to think creatively of ways of helping other people. But it shouldn't be in a haphazard way. You need a structure, a formula, so you don't give to everything.”

“There is a real sense of loss when a family sells a business they've spent generations building. I wanted to get some of that back.”

“My father was never interested in anything outside England. He was an Anglophile who was interested in things that, in his mind, were quintessentially English.”

“Analysts have forgotten how to analyze business and they have forgotten how to be objective about them.”

“I was raised in Italy for the early part of my life, in a relatively small village near Siena, and everyone worked there, from the day that they would walk to the day that they died, so I didn't really see that I was particularly different.”

“No one can deliver visual content like Getty Images.”

“In 17 years, we have built a business that has revolutionized the industry, with innovation at its core. I am confident that the partnership between Getty Images and the Carlyle Group will see the company's success continue.”

“No one ever questions where all these pictures in magazines and books come from.”

“If you look at the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on 'Titanic,' you ask yourself, why on earth would they turn to stock footage? The answer is simple, many scenes used for the narrative of the film don't need to be expensively shot and can be bought from us.”

“The last thing I wanted in life was to be measured by what I had inherited, as opposed to what I had done.”

“It always seemed mad to me that people who have common investment objectives, let alone are related to each other, should take their capital and allow it to be less efficient by breaking it up into smaller bits.”

“Families are complex organisms.”

“In the past the analysts were the department you never saw. They were the nerds at school. You went to see the investment bankers and maybe the salesmen but the Chinese walls divided them from the analysts. But new technology and the Internet changed all that.”

“A lot has changed due to the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of social media: today, visual content is the language of our time.”

“I'm interested in helping people obtain the benefits enjoyed by the First World of efficient government. I want people in sub-Saharan Africa and other extremely impoverished parts of the world to acquire those same opportunities.”

“Bad luck never lost a race.”

“Cricinfo has developed into a significant cricket brand in its own right, combining huge global popularity with strong commercial success. ESPN is a major sports broadcaster and international rights holder and will provide the perfect environment for Cricinfo to further realize its enormous potential.”

“We have four million pictures of sports events and add 5,000 a week. If I was 14, I'd have them all over my walls.”

“Yes, some banks will only float good companies. But others could not give two hoots if you have a business, a business plan or any business experience.”

“The Web isn't an electronic storefront to do business in the old way. The Web is the business.”