From his earliest days in business, the inward, vain, and insecure Getty had been driven by a powerful need to make money, matched by an extraordinary talent for doing so. “There’s always the best hotel in town and the best room in the best hotel in town, and there’s always somebody in it,” he once said. “And there’s the worst hotel, the worst room in the worst hotel, and there’s always somebody in that room, too.” Clearly, he intended to occupy the best room.
