THE GREAT SINGAPORE SECRET
Would be in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia,
Hong Kong & Taiwan,
We've friends from USA, UK, Australia & Europe.
Its pleasure to know you. Add me.
Thanks.
Francis Lim
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My Works
FRANCIS LIM
CEO Founder
*Suntex Strategic Investment Ltd
IFS - Private Investment Banking
(International Financial Solutions)
• Asset Management
• Fund Management
• Global Protection/Health plan
• Private Investment Banking
• Venture Capitals/Joint venture
• New start up
PSS WORLDWIDE - TOP OF THE WORLD
CEO FOUNDER HOTEL & RESORTS
PRAISE JESUS CHRIST
Authentic Thai Fast Food Restaurant
Branded Licensed Networking
Food Manufacturer
Singapore Malaysia Indonesia Thailand
SAT BRIMOB POLDA SUMUT
BANKOM TERATAI MANGGALA
RAGU-RAGU MUNDUR
JIWA RAGAKU DEMI KEMANUSIAAN
DARI:
World Class
Master Trainer
Merupakan Stokist Cosultant.
Beliau memiliki pengalaman multilevel selama 10 tahun
di Industry Internasional Network Marketing.
Great Eastern Life di Singapura, dan
Top Divisional Sales Manager selama 10 tahun.
Beliau ingin membagi pengalaman dan
pengetahuan untuk meningkatkan keahlian pemimpin
kita dan bisnis ini.
FRANCIS LIM
PUSAT PELATIHAN PEMIMPIM
ANDA berbisnis untuk DIRISENDIRI tapi TIDAK dari DIRI SENDIRI...
THE BEST GROUP
“KESEMPATAN DAPAT MEMBERIKAN HARAPAN ANDA MENJADI KENYATAAN.”
DATANG DAN BERGABUNGLAH DENGAN KAMI
Empower You
Providing Equal Opportunities With The Able Helping The Unable
LOVE BREAKS ALL BARRIER
cgnetwork2006
Say No Drugs Say No Unemployment
This includes those from low-income or broken families.
We provide training and guidance for them
in hope that they will be able to earn a decent living
and to eventually become social entrepreneurs themselves.
CG NETWORK a.k.a. Christian Global Network
E4AK EDUCATION FOR ASIAN KIDS
TEAM INTERNATIONAL( Church Planting & Multiplication)
Management Humanitarian Relief NGO
Fund Raising Life-skills Training
Singapore Malaysia Indonesia Thailand
AUSTRALIA
USA
ASIA
THE GREATEST STORY
Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Live at the Oscars 1998)
Vincent (Starry Starry Night) Don McLean....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM
only if they had knew its Vincent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ8miTErh-o
the day the music died
when Richie Valens and all in one plane crashed
George Michael & Elton John - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - Release Date 1991 - From Album Duets (Elton John)
Live Aid was a NON PROFIT concert, and these videos are collected FROM fans, FOR fans. They are NOT my videos I do NOT own them. I respect the Live Aid Foundation and BBC. ~Peace & enjoy whats yours!
Talk of the town!
Fan club, celebrities, upcoming activities and events, promotions
and lots more.
Check it out!!!
Check it out
We are fun-loving.
We can start meeting each other in different locations.
Wouldn't it be fun to have new friends to walk with, dine out with, go to movies with, enjoy sports and just plain chat with? Interaction is the goal and start!
DO IT NOW!
Remarks at the Pathways to Prosperity Women Entrepreneurs Conference
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/10/130862....
Remarks at the Pathways to Prosperity Women Entrepreneurs Conference
Vision of you.
Specially dedicated for woman.
Francis Lim
Who I'd like to meet
cgnetwork2006
Mission Statement of CG Network
Say No Drugs Say No Unemployment
This includes those from low-income or broken families.
We provide training and guidance for them
in hope that they will be able to earn a decent living
and to eventually become social entrepreneurs themselves.
Cat Stevens - Oh Very Young (live)
E4AK EDUCATION FOR ASIAN KIDS
Management Humanitarian NGO Fund Raising
Singapore Malaysia Indonesia Thailand
Education For Asian Kids (E4AK) Project
Education For Asian Kids (E4AK) Funding
The Education For Asian Kids Project serve
to provide needed funding for such causes
as continuing education for the children,
better housing, public parks and improved dental education
and care. A committee oversee the funding
of these other humanitarian projects.
Cat Stevens - Miles From Nowhere
CG NETWORK a.k.a. Christian Global Network
Humanitarian Relief NGO
Fund Raising Life-skills Training
Singapore Malaysia Indonesia Thailand
CG Network commitment is see to the successful
implementation of the entire project,
which will be a model for other charitable groups
and other nations to duplicate.
Cat Stevens - Peace Train
TEAM International
Humanitarian Non-profit Management
Church Planting & Multiplication
Singapore Malaysia Indonesia Thailand
Team International:
Church Planting & Multiplication -
Singapore Malaysia Indonesia Thailand
Press Release: Christians Unite to Bless Hatyai, Thailand!
Cat Stevens - Where Do The Children Play (live)
Date: Sunday, March 6, 6-9PM at the Sakura Grand View Hotel
Cat Stevens - Moonshadow
Christian leaders from churches all over Hatyai
gathered together for a Banquet on Sunday evening
to open the Bless Hatyai Project.
The Christians of the city will gather for a series
of prayer meetings for the next several months,
asking God to bless every person, family, school and business in Hatyai.
Cat Stevens - Morning has broken 1976
Beginning July 1st, teams of 2 will be sent out
to build relationships, pray for the sick
and give a series of gifts to leaders and friends in the city.
Cat Stevens - Father and Son
One unique aspect of the project will be asking God to bless "Houses of Peace." Special prayer and ceremonies are offered to any home and family that is seeking peace in these troubled days.
Teams will visit any home where someone is sick
to encourage and pray for them.
Cat Stevens Wild World
A time to bless the city government officials
will occur in early October, with a special city-wide events
scheduled for early November.
Christmas will include a series of special events.
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son - Music Video
A Music video made by me.
One Hihoshima is enough
A Bless Hatyai newspaper is being prepared
for free distribution with stories of God's powerful love
for the people of the city. A calender of events is included.
The Bless Hatyai Project
* The Birth of Bless Hatyai
* The Lord Jesus Wants to Visit Hatyai
* 4 Main Ideas
Welcome to the "Rise and Shine" Seminar!
Have you ever seen a beautiful sunrise?
It's very impressive. In this seminar,
our prayer is you will rise up
and behold the glorious sunrise
of the Lord Jesus Christ
shining fresh revelation in your heart.
Our prayer is that it will be life changing for you,
especially because of our emphasis on life skills training.
TEAM International is working in cooperation with the Thailand Protestant Coordinating Committee, focusing on Vision 2010. Our goal is to see Thailand's 80,000 villages hear the gospel, 7,000 sub-districts have a group of Christians and 926 have a church by year 2010. We still need to plant over 260 churches and 6.300 home groups.
Pray with us for the Lord to pour out His Spirit and send laborers into HIS harvest all over Thailand. Jesus is beautifying His church in Thailand. The following key passages have been impressed on our hearts by the Lord, and we introduce them to you as the foundation of our training. Please read Eph. 25-2, Isaiah 60:1-3, 61:1-4.
Our goal is to work with your leaders to equip you to ARISE to behold the glory of the Lord, and then SHINE as His glory comes upon you. As we do, we become "the church in all her glory".
CG NETWORK is a business contact for networking and serve as a prospecting platform tools. Our service to our associates in networking. For believers in Jesus Christ as well as non-believers, our mission is to provide help. Scriptures provides the reference tool. We uses exploratory study materials and concurred with TEAM International
OUR objective in reaching out to all trans denomination as business associates in Christ Jesus. For non-believers we also believe God does not impose faith but rather elect as our Father draws them and gave them to His only begotten Son in Christ Jesus.
The focal purpose of CG NETWORK is to built bridges worldwide so our associates would have the best support as Networking which links them to the business opportunities. CG NETWORK is part of TEAM International. CG NETWORK gives back the honor and glory to Jesus Christ. So the name of Jesus is exalted above all names. We are the clay and he is the potter. So how can the clay claim to be above the potter...
Francis Lim
CG Network is a trans national organization that works to facilitate the creation of community enterprises to empower people who are unskilled, or unemployed. This includes those from low-income or broken families. We provide training and guidance for them in hope that they will be able to earn a decent living and to eventually become social entrepreneurs themselves.
Education For Asian Kids (E4AK) Funding (The Education For Asian Kids Project serve to provide needed funding for such causes as continuing education for the children, better housing, public parks and improved dental education and care. A committee oversee the funding of these other humanitarian projects.
CG Network commitment is to the successful implementation of the entire project, which will be a model for other charitable groups and other nations to duplicate.)
CG NETWORK a.k.a. Christian Global Network
E4AK EDUCATION FOR ASIAN KIDS
TEAM INTERNATIONAL( Church Planting & Multiplication)
Management Humanitarian Relief NGO
Fund Raising Life-skills Training
Singapore Malaysia Indonesia Thailand
General
UNICITY MIA
PSS WORLDWIDE - TOP OF THE WORLD
EVENTS REVIEW BY FRANCIS LIM
Music
Favorite Music:
BALLADS, BLUES, R&B, HEAVY METAL, HARD ROCKS, SLOW ROCKS
Christian Contemporary Music
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Midnight Special
ccr singing midnite special...
I MADE THIS VIDEO, i had to edit the 29 minute concert just to get this clip
Bon Jovi, Roxette, The Police, Phil Collins, Gypsy Kings,
Whitney Houston, Boyz II Men, Mr. Big, Alanis Morissette,
Queen, Toto
*MTV, *BBC, *Fox News, *National Geographic, *Reuters
Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You
Music video by Boyz II Men performing I'll Make Love To You. (C) 1994 Motown Records, a Di...
I Swear - All 4 One
I Swear sung by All 4 One with words.
Dedicated to the one i love! This is my first video =)!
I also Made the heart made of love sayings
Gloria Estefan - One Day in Your Life
(Tribute to Michael Jackson - Liverpool Echo Arena 2009)
Michael Jackson, one of the most widely beloved entertainers and profoundly influential artists of all-time, leaves an indelible imprint on popular music and culture.
Commenting on his passing, Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman, CEO and President, Sony Corporation, said: “Michael Jackson was a brilliant troubadour for his generation, a genius whose music reflected the passion and creativity of an era. His artistry and magnetism changed the music landscape forever. We have been profoundly affected by his originality, creativity and amazing body of work. The entire Sony family extends our deepest condolences to his family and to the millions of fans around the world who loved him.”
Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, CEO, Sony Music Entertainment, said: “Michael Jackson's unsurpassed artistry and beloved music brought joy to every corner of the world. We join today with his millions of fans in expressing our profound sadness and we offer our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. It was a true privilege for all of us in the Sony Music family to work with one of the most talented superstars in the history of music. We will miss him greatly.”
Martin Bandier, Chairman & CEO of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, said: “Michael was the kind of amazing talent that comes along once in a lifetime. He was an incredible recording artist, an insightful businessman, an unmatched performer, and a true icon. To all of us at Sony/ATV Music Publishing, he was also a trusted and passionate partner, who was very proud of our accomplishments. He will be dearly missed. We wish his children and entire family our deepest condolences.”
Five of Jackson’s solo albums – “Off the Wall,” “Thriller,” “Bad,” “Dangerous” and “HIStory,” all with Epic Records, a Sony Music label – are among the top-sellers of all time. During his extraordinary career, he sold an estimated 750 million records worldwide, released 13 No.1 singles and became one of a handful of artists to be inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Guinness Book of World Records recognized Jackson as the Most Successful Entertainer of All Time and “Thriller” as the Biggest Selling Album of All Time. Jackson won 13 Grammy Awards and received the American Music Award’s Artist of the Century Award.
Michael Jackson started in the music business at the age of 11 with his brothers as a member of the Jackson 5. In the early 1980s, he defined the art form of music video with such ground-breaking videos as “Billie Jean,” “Beat It” and the epic “Thriller.” Jackson’s sound, style and dance moves inspired subsequent generations of pop, soul, R&B and hip-hop artists.
Michael Jackson on the superbowl singin and dancing to Jam,Billie Jean and Black or White
Michael Jackson - Medley "The Jacksons" - Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever (1983) - HQ
MICHAEL JACKSON (1958 - 2009)
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Cream - Sunshine of your Love
Talk of the town! Fan club, celebrities, upcoming activities and events, promotions and lots more. Check it out!!!
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Peter Green Fleetwood Mac "Like it This Way"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ8AcEYTEFY
Talk of the town! Fan club, celebrities, upcoming activities and events, promotions and lots more. Check it out!!!
Jimi Hendrix - Rock Me Baby (Live) HQ
Jimi Hendrix - Stockholm - The Wind Cries Mary (live 1967)
Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker & Eric Clapton
Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
Joe Cocker - You are so beautiful (nearly unplugged)
Alex Britti, Joe Cocker & Pavarotti
Jon Bon Jovi & Pavarotti - Let it Rain
Eric Clapton/Tears in heaven
Eric Clapton - Layla
Eric Clapton - I Shot the Sheriff
Wyclef Jean with Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight (From "All Star Jam At Carnegie Hall" DVD)
John Mayer and Eric Clapton - Crossroads (ABC News)
Movies
Favorites Movie:
Casablanca,All About Eve,Psycho,Gone With the Wind,The Wizard of Oz,A Streetcar Named Desire,Beauty and the Beast,Sunset Boulevard,The Lord of the Rings 1&3,Harry Potter 3&4,Pan's Labyrinth,Chicago,American Beauty,On the Waterfront,Breakfast at Tiffany's,Schindler's List,To Kill a Mockingbird,Bonnie and Clyde,Wall Street, Matrix (all of them), Lord of the Rings (all of them), The Fast and The Furious (all of them), X-Men (all of them), The English Patient, Jerry McGuire
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Favorite Actor:
Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp,
Bette Davis, Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kate Winslet,
Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, Annette Bening, Faye Dunaway,
Isabelle Huppert, Cate Blanchet, Tom Hanks, Julie Andrews,
Ralph Fiennes, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart
PSS WORLDWIDE – TOP OF THE WORLD
ROCK ON
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Favorite Director:
Alfred Hitchcock, Pedro Almodovar, William Wyler,
Tim Burton, Woody Allen, Elia Kazan, Stanley Kubrick,
Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Victor Fleming,
Francis Ford Copolla ,Clint Eastwood, Billy Wilder,
Quentin Tarantino, Alfonso Quaron, Peter Jackson...
WELCOME TO MY WORLD
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THE POWER OF THE DREAM (Celine Dion's Power of the Dream Lyrics encourages people to embrace life and live their dream...)
Favorite Quote:
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca
"I'm gona make him an offer he can't refuse" The godfather
"Frankly my dear I don't give a damn" Gone with the wind
Deut 29:29 The secret thing belongs to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and our children forever that we may follow all the words...Posted By Francis Lim
THE SECRET: To WORLD CLASS life style dreams is the choice of your thinking - Francis Lim
Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages... FRANCIS LIM
Christianity is personal relationship with Our Heavenly Father we can call Abba-Daddy
with His Son Jesus Christ as our Savior in Spirit and in Truth - Francis Lim
Trust no body. Trust the Bible. - Francis Lim
another day in paradise
video copyrighted to phil collins
Specially For You
WOMAN BEST FRIEND
"An early Valentine for you!
Give this heart [♥] to
every person you care about
including me if you care.
Try to collect 14[♥].
its not easy .[♥]"
Memory - Barbra Streisand
People I Love
In Memory of Christine
Yesterday...
All my troubles seems so far away
Now it looks like there are here to stay...
And now I am not half a man I used to be
Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were (1975)
Barbara Streisand & Barry Gibb "What Kind Of Fool"
The most selfish one letter word --- "I" -- Avoid it. The most satisfying two-letter word --- "WE" -- Use it. The most poisonous three-letter word --- "EGO" -- Kill it. The most used four-letter word --- "LOVE" -- Value it. The most pleasing five-letter word --- "SMILE" -- Keep it. The fastest spreading six-letter word --- "RUMOUR" -- Ignore it. The hardest working seven-letter word --- "SUCCESS" -- Achieve it. The most enviable eight-letter word --- "JEALOUSY" -- Distance it. The most powerful nine-letter word --- "KNOWLEDGE" -- Acquire it. The most essential ten-letter word --- "CONFIDENCE -- Have it.
Barbra Streisand - Somewhere
Life is a book with many chapters. Some tell of tragedy and others of triumph. Some chapters are dull and ordinary, others intense and exciting. The key to being a success in life is to never stop on a difficult page, to never quit on a tough chapter. Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages, because they know a better chapter lies ahead. I can tell in all confidence, that your best chapter is the unopened chapter that 2012holds in secret.
Remain blessed.
Barbra Streisand - Cry Me A River
Hi, I'm sorry to bother you but it's urgent. I have a friend coming from far and needs a place to stay since he'll be around, so I've indicated your house. Please receive and love him. ........ His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He is already at the door knocking. Say this slowly, Jesus I love you and I need you. Clean my heart with your blood and make it pure.. Send this to your friends and people special to you. You will experience a wonderful miracle before the end of this month because you are announcing Jesus to your friends. If you think the death of Jesus Christ is for nothing, ignore this message but if you believe that he died for you to prosper in every thing you do, send this message to every one in your list. God is Great
Barbra Streisand - As If We Never Said Goodbye (live)
Books
WORLD CLASS
WORLD CLASS
In this ground breaking book by the bestselling author of the Change Masters and When Giants Learn to Dance, Rosabeth Moss Kanter shows how business and communities can harness global market forces and make them work to their advantage right here at home. In the economy of the 21st century, she writes, success will come only to those companies – large and small – whose goods and services meet world class standards and can compete in the global marketplace. Thus, even small companies must tap into international networks and global alliances. Managers must widen their perspective and broaden their contacts and fields of expertise. And communities must open their boundaries to multinational companies and welcome foreign investment and trade.
At a time when nation’s fear about job displacement and foreign competition are sparking protectionist sympathies and backlash against world trade agreements, Kanter presents a persuasive and richly detailed argument for directing the American economy outward, not inward. World Class shows us how to turn globalization into an unprecedented opportunity on the local level – to rejuvenate old business and grow new ones, to create jobs, to revitalize communities, and to develop the cosmopolitan cities of the future.
It is a two-way street, Kanter writes. Business must become more actively involved in their communities. And communities must actively develop those amenities and resources that will encourage global business to feel at home – and stay, there. And finally, Kanter presents a detailed action agenda for both business and community leaders that will enable them to achieve their mutually beneficial goals.
A sweeping look at a changing America. World Class is both a warning and a call to action. Its perceptive message is directed to international corporate giants as well as small local business, to Washington’s political leaders as well as elected officials of cities, states, and smaller communities – to all, in fact, who have a stake in the success if global market forces at the local level.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER holds an endowed chair as Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and is the author of such prizewinning books as Men and Women of the Corporation, The Change Masters, and When Giants Learn to Dance. An adviser on managing change to Fortune 500 corporations and growth companies in North America, Europe, and Asia, she also serves on many public interest boards and economic policy commissions. Among the most sought-after business speakers in the world, she was editor of Harvard Business Review from 1989 through 1992 and has received numerous “Woman of the Year” awards. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and her son.
SECRET TO FRIENDSHIP
Empower You
Mission: Providing Equal Business Opportunities With The Able Helping The Unable
Heroes
Deut 29:29 The secret thing belongs to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and our children forever that we may follow all the words
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Paul_Getty
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1215.html#top
June 6, 1976
OBITUARY
J. Paul Getty Dead at 83; Amassed Billions From Oil
By ALDEN WHITMAN
J. Paul Getty, a symbol of oil, wealth and power, died early today at his country mansion near London. He was 83 years old. The cause of death was reported to be heart failure.
An American by birth, Mr. Getty had lived in Britain for nearly 25 years. He had been in failing health for several months.
Business associates who announced Mr. Getty's death said that the directors of the Getty Oil Company, of which Mr. Getty was still president, had already provided for the delegation of authority within the company and that normal business operations would continue.
The precise extent of Mr. Getty's wealth was difficult to compute, but in 1974 business associates put his fortune at from $2 billion to $4 billion. He had a majority or controlling interest in the Getty Oil Company and nearly 200 other concerns.
Mr. Getty tended to be reclusive in his last years. He spoke several times of wanting to return to Southern California, where he had lived for many years--but he never did. On his 80th birthday, dukes and duchesses, counts and countesses, bankers, business leaders and dressmakers turned up for a London party at which Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, was the hostess. A vocalist summed it all up by singing to the Cole Porter tune:
You're the top, your are J. Paul Getty you're the top, and your cash ain't petty.
In 1957, when Fortune magazine first suggested that Jean Paul Getty was probably the world's richest private citizen, he was asked the inevitable question: how much would he really get in cash if he were to sell his oil, realty, art and other holdings? A note of gone- are-the-better-days crept into his response. "I would hope to realize several billions," he said. "But, remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be."
Hardships of Fame
Mr. Getty, of course, did not sell out, and seven or eight years later, when his fortune had very much and very visibly increased, he was complaining of the hardships of wealth and the fame that accompanied it. The fame, it appeared, had generated the hardships. But these were not so great as to make them unbearable, nor to render fame less desirable than obscurity.
Before 1957 Mr. Getty cultivated wealth in the relative shadows of the oil business here and abroad. He was also known by some newspaper readers for his purchase of the Pierre Hotel in New York and for his five marriages and an equal number of divorces. Once, however, the awesome vastness of his riches was made generally known he acquired celebrity. This he burnished by writing articles in mass-circulation magazines and by putting his name to two books."
For Young Executives
One was "My Life and Fortunes," published in 1953 by Duell, Sloan & Pearce. The other was "How to Be Rich," issued in 1965 by Playboy Press and consisting in part of articles Mr. Getty had composed, he said, for the "young executives and college students," who read Playboy magazine. He also permitted himself to be the subject of a biography. "The Richest American," by Ralph Hewins, which was published by Dutton in 1960.
The oilman's grandson, J. Paul Getty 3d, was kidnapped in Italy in 1973, and the oilman was asked to pay a $16 million ransom. He balked on the ground that "I have 14 other grandchildren and if I pay one penny now, then I'll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren." Eventually, however, the Getty family did pay $2.8 million, but how much Mr. Getty contributed was never disclosed.
A List of Grievances
Mr. Getty's principal grievances about being very rich were these:
People beseeched him for money.
People overcharged him or expected him to tip generously.
He could never be certain that he was liked for himself.
Most people, the oilman said he had discovered after 1957, were "so economically illiterate that they assume most of my fortune is in cash," whereas in fact all the folding money he had was a million dollars; and that was so parsimoniously budgeted by his accountants that he rarely carried more than $25 in his pockets.
The result of this lamentable public ignorance was that he received, he said, 3,000 letters a month from strangers, all seeking money. Recounting his plight in a magazine article entitled "It's Tough to Be a Billionaire," Mr. Getty said that "I never give money to individuals" because "it's unrewarding and wrong."
Returning to this theme in 1965 in a Saturday Evening Post article entitled "The World Is Mean to Millionaires" (why he had diminished his wealth status since 1958 was not explained), Mr. Getty said:
"If I were convinced that by giving away my fortune I could make a real contribution toward solving the problems of world poverty, I'd give away 99.5 percent of all I have immediately. But a hard-eyed appraisal of the situation convinces me this is not the case."
"However admirable the work of the best charitable foundation, it would accustom people to the passive acceptance of money," he added. This, he believed, was corrupting.
Always Handed the Bill
As for being gouged, Mr. Getty said that at luncheon or dinner with friends waiters automatically handed him the bill. "It's not the money I object to, it's the principle of the thing that bothers me--to say nothing of the monotony of it," he wrote.
"Even the simple, everyday matter of tipping can become a major problem," he continued. "If I tip well, someone is certain to accuse me of showing off. If I don't overtip, that someone will be the first to sneer "penny-pincher!""
Mr. Getty said he found himself lonely because so many people liked him for his bank balance while ignoring his other virtues. "Time is the only yardstick by which I can judge who are--and who aren't--really friends," he said, adding significantly:
"I've known many people for years who have never asked me for anything."
Providing Incentives
Was being so rich worth all the trouble? Mr. Getty was asked when he attained the age of 73. "Though our rewards may be small," he said of himself and his fellow Midases, "we are, if our society is to remain in its present form, essential to the nation's prosperity. We provide others with incentives which would not exist if we were to disappear."
Although the oilman obviously liked to talk about his money, he insisted that it was all rather vulgar. "I don't think there is any story in being known as a moneybags," he asserted in his Oklahoma drawl. "I'd rather be considered a businessman."
Indeed, business was Mr. Getty's life. One of his former wives once remarked, perhaps astringently, that business was his "first love" and that wealth was merely a byproduct.
Describing how he often worked 16 and 18 hours a day to handle the complex transactions of his multifarious business dealings, Mr. Getty seemed to agree. "I can't remember a single day of vacation in the last 45 years that was not somehow interrupted by a cable, telegram or telephone call that made me tend to business for at least a few hours," he wrote in 1965. "Such work schedules and the need for devoting the majority of my time to business have taken a heavy toll of my personal life."
Boss of His Business
He made a point of being the boss of all of his businesses, even at one time making his executives stand at attention in his presence. When the head of one of his companies ventured a proposal, Mr. Getty cut him off. "Who does that fellow think he is?" he said. "Why, he's nothing but a damned office boy."
In a less irritated moment, he said of properties that included "Tidewater Oil, Skelly Oil and Getty Oil, "I own my own companies. How many others do? There are just a few like me left."
Mr. Getty seemed to alternate between expressing pride over his undoubted entrepreneurial genius and boasting about his penny-saving habits. He liked to recount, for example, how he had once waited with a party of friends to get into a dog show at a reduced price. "I've always watched things like that," he said. He also liked to be thrifty in other ways--washing his own socks, for one thing. "I have done it and I'll probably do it again," he told one interviewer.
Mr. Getty was seated at the time in the cushioned comfort of a Sheraton armchair in Sutton Place, his elegant 72-room mansion near Guildford, Surrey, 35 miles from London. This was one of several homes, the others being a place at Malibu Beach, Calif; a spot at Mina Saud on the Persian Gulf, and a 15th-century palace and nearby castle at Ladispoli, on the coast northwest of Rome. He first began to occupy his Italian estate in 1966, when the rigors of British winters drove him from London.
Bought Residence From Duke
After 1959 the oilman's principal residence was in Britain. Previously he had led a restless life, running his business for many years from hotel suites. After World War II, he virtually expatriated himself from the United States. He could usually be found in those years at the George V in Paris or the Ritz in London.
He bought the 400-year-old Sutton Place in 1959 from the Duke of Sutherland for about $840,000 because it was convenient for his Middle East oil enterprise and because, he said, it was cheaper in the long run than living in a hotel.
Typically, one of Mr. Getty's first renovations was the installation of oil central heating. He also substituted a highly mechanized team of four gardeners for the previous 24 who had tended the 700-acre, two-swimming-pool estate, on which there were also 30 cottages and lodges, tennis courts and a trout stream.
Sutton Place was soon made into a garrison in conformity to Mr. Getty's penchant for privacy. An elaborate security system was installed, and every room, including the 14 bathrooms (one of them with gold fixtures) was wired. Windows and doors were barred, too; and 'No Trespass' signs were erected to warn visitors of the giant Alsatian dogs that had the run of the place.
Mr. Getty transferred part of his art collection to Sutton Place. Valued at more than $4 million, it included works by Tintoretto, Titian, Gainsborough, Romney, Rubens, Renoir, Degas and Monet.
Perhaps the most talked about feature of the mansion however, was the pay telephone booth that Mr. Getty had installed so that his guest, as he explained it, did not need to feel they were imposing on their host.
Mr. Getty's seeming ambiguities perplexed his business associates and friends. He was a somber man who stood imposingly at 5 feet 11 inches and who weighed a muscular 180 pounds. A long fleshy nose dominated his pale, stern face with its pinched lips. He had blue eyes beneath heavy lids. His hair, which he touched up from time to time, was dark and carefully brushed. When he wore gold-rimmed spectacles for reading he looked rather professorial. Indeed, he possessed a keen mind and a tenacious memory--one so full of detail, it was said, that he could recite with ease the circumstance of complex financial dealings.
Mr. Getty had a better-than-average knowledge of petroleum geology; knew his way about in the art world; was fluent in English, German, French and Italian and could get along commendably in Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Greek; and could read Latin and ancient Greek without too many hesitations.
He constantly worried about the state of his health. He ate health foods, chewing each mouthful 33 times; munched maple sugar candy between meals, worked at Bernarr Macfadden body-building exercises and walked two miles a day wearing a pedometer to calculate his mileage.
He liked to pretend to poverty by wearing rumpled suits and sweaters out at the elbow. He also liked to practice the prerogatives of wealth by attending splendid social gatherings and by escorting comely women many years his junior to parties. He was a friend of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and of many correspondingly notable and fashionable people here and abroad.
Posed With Beatle
He thought of himself as a man who yearned for privacy. Yet certainly after Fortune emblazoned his wealth, he courted publicity.
His appearances in the British press were quite frequent, both as contributor ("How to Make a Million Dollars") and as a subject, in which capacity he was photographed contemplating masterpieces in the Hanover Gallery; being fitted for a hat at Lock's; getting a haircut in St. James's; driving a Lotus racing car at 85 miles an hour around the Goodwood Circuit; posing with Ringo Starr, the Beatle, at a birthday luncheon at Trader Vic's in the London Hilton; masticating at a Foyes literary luncheon and grappling with the twist at a party in his Sutton Place for children from a Church of England home.
Mr. Getty was an art collector of note who wrote about his hobby in a book, "The Joys of Collecting" (1965), and who explained some of his expertise in another book, "Europe in the Eighteenth Century" (1949).
His collection, of more than 600 items, was housed partly in Sutton Place and partly in a gallery of his ranch home at Malibu. Mr. Getty started his collection in the nineteen- thirties. He purchased the house and 60-acre ranch near Los Angeles in 1943, and later he added the gallery wing. At that time he placed the estate under a trust fund as the J. Paul Getty Museum, which was opened to the public in 1954. Some art objects were given to the Los Angeles County Museum. These included the legendary Ardabil Persian Carpet that had been made on the royal looms of Tabriz in 1535 and Rembrandt's "Martin Looter."
Other Malibu items included the Persian "Coronation Carpet," 18th-century Beauvais tapestries, 18th-century French and English furniture, rock crystal, chandeliers and fine examples of Greek and Roman sculptures. There was also a somewhat less fine bust of the donor.
'Born at Right Time'
All this, and additional acquisitions were housed after 1973 in a Roman villa-style museum on Mr. Getty's Malibu property. The building, fashioned after one found in the ruins of a town near Pompeii, was often criticized by art professionals but it delighted the public, which clamored for tickets of admission.
Mr. Getty credited his global oil empire (and the riches it gushed for him) to his father's foresight and his own luck and ingenuity.
"In building a large fortune," he once said, "it pays to be born at the right time. I was born at a very favorable time. If I had been born earlier or later, I would have missed the great business opportunities that existed in World War I and later.
"I suppose it takes a long time and it takes extraordinary circumstances to be born at the right time and have cash money available at the right time. 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."
Born in Minneapolis Dec. 15, 1892, Jean Paul Getty was the son of George Franklin Getty, a lawyer who went into the oil business in Oklahoma in 1903 and two years later moved to California. There Paul was reared.
He attended Harvard Military Academy and Polytechnic High School, both in Los Angles, graduating in 1909. In the next two years he studied at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles and the University of California at Berkeley. Then he went to Oxford for two years where, in 1914, he took his diploma in politics and economics.
At 21 he arrived in Tulsa Okla., ready for work and determined to make a million in two years. This was the site of his millionaire father's Minnehoma Oil Company.
"I started in September, 1914, to buy [oil] leases in the so-called red-beds area of Oklahoma," Paul Getty said afterward. "The surface was red dirt and it was considered impossible there was any oil there. My father and I did not agree and we got many leases for very little money which later turned out to be rich leases."
Made His Million
By buying and selling oil leases with his father's backing young Getty made his million by June, 1916, and retired to Los Angeles, where he lived a gaudy, girl-filled life for two years. In 1919 he returned to business with his father in buying and selling leases and drilling wildcat wells. More money rolled in.
In 1923, when he was 30, Mr. Getty married Jeannette Dumont, 18. She was the mother of his first child, George Franklin Getty 2d, and the first of his five wives. The others, also all younger than himself, were Allene Ashby, a Texas rancher's daughter, whom he married in 1925; Adolphine Helmle, a German girl, whom he married in 1928 and who was the mother of his second son, Jean Ronald; Ann Rork, a film starlet, whom he married in 1932 and who was the mother of two sons, Eugene Paul and Gordon Peter; and Louise Dudley Lynch, a debutante and cabaret singer, whom he married in 1939 and who was the mother of a son, Timothy, who died at the age of 12. His parents were divorced in 1958.
Most of Mr. Getty's former wives had a good word for him and he for them. He also expressed regrets for all his divorces "because I don't like anything to be unsuccessful."
Left $500,000 by Father
Sharpening his oil talents to the point of genius in the nineteen-twenties, Mr. Getty accumulated about $3 million, including a one-third interest in a company that was to evolve into the Getty Oil Company. Mr. Getty's father was pleased by his son's business acumen but shocked by his marriages, and when he died in 1930 he left his son only $500,000 of an estate of $10 million. Most of the estate, which had sprung from a $5,000 oil investment in 1903, went to Paul Getty's mother.
In the Depression he picked up the Pacific Western Oil Corporation, a holding company with large oil reserves and a heavy cash balance. He also dickered with his mother to win a controlling interest in the Getty concern. Then, in a drawn-out series of maneuvers in which he displayed an extraordinary patience and shrewdness, he obtained control, by 1953, of the Mission Corporation and its holdings in Tidewater Oil (then called Tide Water Associated Oil Company) and Skelly Oil Company.
These companies with their reserves, refineries and retail businesses eventually became part of a pyramid of corporations, at whose apex stood the Getty Oil Company, which was more than 80 percent owned by Mr. Getty. They constituted the chief ingredients of his fortune in the United States.
In a complicated rearrangement in 1967, Mr. Getty merged the Tidewater Oil Company and the Mission Development Company into the Getty Oil company. The surviving company then had assets of more than $3 billion, a figure since multiplied after oil price increases in 1973. Shortly afterward, he estimated that his profits were 10 percent of assets.
Mr. Getty was asked then what satisfaction he derived from making so much money.
"It is just to prove that you can keep step with the regiment," he replied, alluding to Exxon, Gulf and Texaco, the other giant oil corporations, he seemed to regard as his rivals.
Book on Oil Business
In the years Mr. Getty was wheeling in oil stocks and battling Standard Oil for control of Tidewater and Skelly, he lived mostly in an enormous penthouse at 1 Sutton Place, New York, that he had leased from Mrs. Frederick Guest. He conducted a vigorous social life there and also found time to write his first book, "History of the Oil Business of George Franklin Getty and J. Paul Getty, 1903-39."
He also got into the hotel business in that period by purchasing the Pierre at Fifth Avenue and 60th Street for $2,350,000 in 1938. Twenty years later he sold most of the suites to residents while retaining, through a subsidiary company, the service rooms--the bars, restaurants and reception rooms.
To the rear of the Pierre, at 600 Madison Avenue, is the 22-story Getty Building, which he built in the late fifties and which he owned through Getty Oil. He also owned, again through corporate devices, a skyscraper in Los Angeles, an office building in Tulsa and the Pierre Marques Hotel at Revolcadero Beach near Acapulco, Mexico.
The day the United States entered World War II, in 1941, Mr. Getty dispatched a telegram to an old friend, Under Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal. The message, quoted in Mr. Getty's autobiography read:
"I am 49 but in good health, have owned three yachts and am experienced in their care and maintenance. If Navy can use me in any capacity, please advise. Regards."
The Navy rejected him for sea duty, but Secretary Frank Knox suggested he do something about the Spartan Aircraft Company, a Skelly and hence Getty subsidiary in Tulsa. He did, and in the war Spartan manufactured trainers and plane parts under Mr. Getty's personal direction. Afterward, the company converted profitably to production of mobile homes.
In the postwar years Mr. Getty executed the most daring coup of his business career when, in 1949, he obtained a 60-year concession in Saudi Arabia's half of the Neutral Zone, a barren tract lying between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, in which no oil had been discovered. He paid King Saud $9.5 million in cash for the concession and agreed to pay $1 million a year for its duration whether or not oil was struck.
Gamble Pays Off
After an investment of $30 million, the gamble paid off when the Getty interests hit oil in enormous quantities in 1953. Production from that field, which was in excess of 16 million barrels a year, helped to elevate Mr. Getty into the billionaire class.
In addition to his holdings in oil (including a tanker fleet with a ship named for him), real estate, trailer homes and hotels, Mr. Getty had interests in the Minnehoma Insurance Company and the Spartan Cafeteria Company, all in Oklahoma.
Mr. Getty's ability (and agility) in amassing his fortune awed most of his business contemporaries. "He is comparable to Henry Ford, Commodor Vanderbilt or Andrew Mellon," one Wall Street broker said.
His sons were awed, too. One of them, George, who died in 1973, once put it this way:
"Mr. Getty is the smartest businessman I know. Coming to see him is like visiting Mount Olympus."
Mr. Getty was inclined to agree that he occupied some sort of special status, although he was modest in his expression. "I'm a bad boss," he said self-analytically. "A good boss develops successors. There is nobody to step into my shoes."
Mr. Getty is survived by three sons, J. Ronald Getty, J. Paul Getty Jr., and Gordon Peter Getty, 16 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages FRANCIS LIM
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Christianity is personal relationship with Our Heavenly Father we can call Abba-Daddy with His Son Jesus Christ as our Savior in Spirit and in Truth-Francis Lim
Trust no body. Trust the Bible-Francis Lim
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