J. Paul Getty, one of history's richest men, stayed obsessed with operational details until the end. He once objected to the Getty Museum's air-conditioning costs, the same hands-on approach that grew his father's $15 million company into a $30 billion empire.
You know J. Paul Getty, right? J. Paul Getty? He used to be one of the richest guys in the world. He talks about being a working boss, quote unquote. And the whole concept of this is you have to be involved in the business. And he's involved with the details, right? Even at the very end when he was about to die, he had the Getty Museum on Pacific Coast, but he saw the bill and they're spending like arm and a leg on air conditioning at this Getty Museum. Even then he's looking at the light at him and then he's reaching out. He's like, guys, we're spending way too much on air conditioning. We need to cut it down. So he's involved with the details, maybe more than he should be, but that's also how he got to build the company that he built and got to be a successful successful as, as he was. Because I think back in the day when he first took over his dad's company, I think it was like worth $15 million or so. I think by the end it was worth $30 billion or something. I could be wrong on that, but that's a pretty big number.
