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"Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars."
"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
"To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that."
"I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process."
"We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns."
"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1."
"If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need."
"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it."
"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."
"Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money."
"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it."
"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."
"Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead."
"We have the best government that money can buy."
"Family is the most important thing in the world."
"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."
"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."
"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."
"... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism."
"To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it."
