“Julian felt about Courtenay’s looks the way radicals thought about money: that it was deeply unfair and problematic for one person to possess such a disproportionate share.”
“Why they came east I don t know. They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.”
“It is the custom for a master to do this for the student, but not the other way around, Yadeen said when he handed a package to Arram. It is assumed the student needs every nit he can find, if not for now, when he has a stipend, then later, when he is on his own.”
“The desire after hoarding is in its very nature unsatiable. In its qualitative aspect, or formally considered, money has no bounds to its efficacy, i.e., it is the universal representative of material wealth, because it is directly convertible into any other commodity. But, at the same time, every actual sum of money is limited in amount, and, therefore, as a means of purchasing, has only a limited efficacy. This antagonism between the quantitative limits of money and its qualitative boundlessness, continually acts as a spur to the hoarder in his Sisyphus-like labour of accumulating. It is with him as it is with a conqueror who sees in every new country annexed, only a new boundary.”
“In the tax profession, there are only three total official credentials. One is the enrolled agent credential. The EA is the only authorized tax practitioner who has technical expertise in the field of taxation and who is empowered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.”
“From what I hear of love, it s very like money. In both cases, presence and absence are the same – when it s there it may as well not be and when it isn t it never leaves you. And both come with warnings, which everyone ignores.”
“Thumb-rule in Equity markets is that big boys chase either your shares or your money ... In former case, they will beat down the share so cheap that you will be forced to sell it ... In latter case, they will balloon the prices to an extent that you will be lured to buy!! Either way, heads they win, tails you lose!!!”
“Compare the luxuries with a neighbour to feel bad, compare the miseries with a neighbour to feel good.”
“Yet she understood a truth she could never say aloud: this ideal life was still deficient. She was not wholly content. Perhaps she should be, but contentment, she had learned, lay beyond money s considerable reach.”
“People who say money cant buy love have never been in relationship with a money minded person.”
“She wished there was a place where one could go and buy the people they wanted in their lives. At least then, money would bring in happiness that wouldn t be so temporary.”
“True wealth, the kind that really counts, is measured in happiness, not in dollars and cents.”
“The most women do not think much of the sex, but well the money”
“LUCIUS The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship. TIMON (aside) Nor more willingly leaves winter. Such summer birds are men.”
“Want a drink? Thank you, I don t drink How about a smoke? Sorry, I don t smoke either. God damn it! I say. Then what do you need money for?”
“What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.”
“Rachel: Do people like you ever have wishes, Jonathan? Jonathan: What does that mean? People like me? Rachel: People who have everything. Was there ever something you wanted but could only wish for, Jonathan? Something for the future. That you want, but don’t think you’ll get. Jonathan: Yes, I— Rachel: Don’t tell me. That’ll ruin it. Jonathan: What do you mean by “wish” then, Rachel? Rachel: Like, hope you get something you know is impossible, but hope anyway. Jonathan: I wish I could be with you like a normal person. Rachel: What’s normal to someone like you? …. Rachel: “Do you wish for things you can’t buy?” Jonathan: “You’re fascinated with money,” Rachel: “I think I am. It’s made you different, you know. You’re fearless. It’s exciting, kind of. Watching you is like watching someone who’s really, truly free.” Jonathan: “What do you wish for? Besides money.” Rachel: “Free, Jonathan. I wish to be free.”