"It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise."
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"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."
"The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money."
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
"It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends."
"O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour."
"Money is a needful and precious thing"
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
"Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?"
"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."
"Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both."
"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money."
"No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first."
"Money makes even bastards legitimate."
"It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it."
"A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence."
"Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely."
"It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up."
"Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation."
"Money always ends up making you blue."