"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."
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"A fool and his money get a lot of publicity."
"Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory."
"Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?""
"Money has never yet made anyone rich."
"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
"The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money."
"I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty."
"Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money."
"Money is just an idea."
"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."
"Carpe per diem - seize the check."
"It's not just the emotional, intellectual, and physical gaps between you and money. The real gap is always between what you think you want and what you actually want, deep down."
"If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better."
"Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there."
"I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference."
"When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin."
"Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs."
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."
"You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold."