"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."
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"The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women."
"Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?"
"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."
"Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money."
"I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs."
"Don't spend all of your money a quarter at a time. Save up and buy something special, something fine, something of lasting value, or something that will give you rich memories for a lifetime. Remember, all that candy money can add up to a small fortune."
"My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly."
"hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
"Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor."
"Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on."
"Finance, like time, devours its own children."
"Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp."
"When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry."
"I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money."
"I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me"
"Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy."
"To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved."
"I can make more generals, but horses cost money."
"My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter."