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“Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.”
“I want to get enough [money] to take off the hardships of life and leave me free to follow the ideas that interest me the most.”
“In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love ...”
“Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?"- Eric, club dead.”
“Having money is a way of being free of money”
“This is so much money that it scares the shit out of me. I don't know how to handle it. I don't know the purpose of the company besides making more money. What's all the money going to be used for?”
“Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.”
“We are not poor. We just don't have any money!”
“What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.”
“If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules”
“They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills.”
“Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be d...”
“...May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That is a saved penny that you put in the star bank...Suffer the cold for an hour. Put a shawl ar...”
“I sighed. It doesnt matter what we do. Money comes and goes. I shook my head. It doesnt matter and you know it doesnt.”
“The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.”
“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of the earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. He took ...”
“Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them”
“It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil.”
“she wondered how she could have spent all that money and have nothing but clothes and accessories and a long list of men she never wanted to see again to show for it”
