Money Quotes

"A coin, sleeve-button or a collar-button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handkerchief in bed can't be found."

"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well."

"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well."

"Ready money is Aladdin's lamp."

"Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun."

"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed."

"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs."

"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

"Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."

"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor."

"Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending."

"If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven."

"There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo."

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

"Buy the ticket, take the ride."

"I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He was a chartered accountant for Price Waterhouse. He was strict, and we had a very ordered life. To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car."

"Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble."

"I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth."

"I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are."