"They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything."
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"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."
"Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it."
"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths."
"As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it."
"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth."
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
"Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time."
"Money is life energy that we exchange and use as a result of the service we provide to the universe."
"Spendin all the money I just worked my ass off for doing things that I won't regret."
"Nobody ever lost money taking a profit"
"Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay."
"If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we'd have a pretty average record. It wasn't hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor."
"The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold is durable, gold is rare, gold is even (in certain very peculiar circumstances) convertible. To believe in thrift, solidity and soundness is to believe in some way in the properties of gold."
"We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream."
"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."
"Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is."
"You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out."
"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."
"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"