"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
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"Become a millionaire not for the million dollars, but for what it will make of you to achieve it."
"I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it."
"There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money."
"Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?"
"Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
"The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars."
"You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy."
"When someone becomes a millionaire, the least important thing is what they have. The most important thing is what they have become."
"If someone hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire, or you won't get to keep the money."
"I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen."
"I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire."
"You can't just wish to be a millionaire; you have to figure out how to earn it."
"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I don't."
"Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!"
"There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants."
"It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up."