“Making money isn t hard in itself... What s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.”
“There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.”
“Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It s the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. ”
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
“Money may not buy happiness, but I d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
“Don t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
“You can be young without money, but you can t be old without it.”
“I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.”
“Money cannot buy health, but I d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.”
“I don t care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I m here because I want to be with you. But if I didn t, all the money in the world wouldn t have changed my feelings for you.”
“Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.”
“There s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”
“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we ve got 24 hours each.”
“Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I d like to express my thanks - I ve got the sun in the mornin and the moon at night.”
“Don t give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.”
“Money isn t everything...but it ranks right up there with oxygen.”
“We do need a system, and we do need you and your Bertos, and sometimes we need Sam to just come along and kick some ass. - Quinn”