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"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."
"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."
"Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will."
"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."
"France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper."
"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy."
"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."
"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."
"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."
"It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues."
"A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments."
"money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen"
"When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door."
"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
"The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust."
"Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
"So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?"
"There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving."
"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!"
