“Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.”
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“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.”
“Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.”
“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
“Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.”
“The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.”
“America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.”
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
“Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.”
“We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.”
“Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.”
“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.”
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
“Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.”
“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”
“A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.”
“Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.”
“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.”
“No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
“The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.”
“The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.”
“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.”
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.”