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“The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.”
“The biggest machines, in those days, were already pushing the limits of what could be constructed on Arbre with reasonable amounts of money.""I hadn't known that," I said. "I always tend to assume ...”
“It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.”
“There is no end in India, Mr. Jiabao,as Mr. Ashok so correctly used to say. You'll have to keep paying and paying the fuckers. But I complain about the police the way the rich complain; not the way...”
“All wars are sacred,” he said. “To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the...”
“As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.”
“Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.”
“There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”
“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely....”
“It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.”
“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
“Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.”
“He didn’t know what beget what, but he quickly learned that people with money to hide were powerful, and powerful people were violent. It was reliable math: as the amount of money being conveyed in...”
“He thinks we're made of money.”
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
“Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the too...”
“Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.”
“Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.”
“Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin’ the dollar finds nothin’ but stress.”
“-Do you think it's dirty money?-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.”
