Money Quotes

"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."

"They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me."

"The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk."

"Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics."

"My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind."

"I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer."

"Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil."

"I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation."

"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."

"Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents."

"I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake."

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way."

"The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself."

"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it."

"We have the best government that money can buy."

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."

"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."

"Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them."

"The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world."