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Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy. The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial 'boom' followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Get money first; virtue comes after.

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

Give me dome dome da-da-da-da-da dome dome dome I aint trippin on ya money money long long long

Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

Globalization has considerably accelerated in recent years following the dizzying expansion of communications and transport and the equally stupefying transnational mergers of capital. We must not confuse globalization with "internationalism" though. We know that the human condition is universal, that we share similar passions, fears, needs and dreams, but this has nothing to do with the "rubbing out" of national borders as a result of unrestricted capital movements. One thing is the free movement of peoples, the other of money.

Global warming is part of natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist.

God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Greatest god below the sky.

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale

Having examined the nature of fractional reserve and of central banking, and having seen how the questionable blessings of Central Banking were fastened upon America, it is time to see precisely how the Fed, as presently constituted, carries out its systemic inflation and its control of the American monetary system.

Having money is just the best thing in the world.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

& he ill, he real, he might gotta deal He pop bottles & he got the right kinda bill

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

Henry Ford made a lot of money making cars at one time, but that was a small advantage to him compared to the benefit to millions of people who for the first time in their lives were emancipated from common public carriers and could live where they wanted, move at the hours they wanted, to the places they wanted. Ford collected a billion bucks, but that was peanuts compared to the benefits.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

Here at work, obviously, I make the most money of anyone on the show, so I try to be the first one here and the last one to leave. I have the crummiest office. I try to balance things out, spread it around.

Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less than $250,000, less than a quarter-million dollars a year, then you will not see one dime's worth of tax increase.

He said, Contented? I am the MOST discontented man in the world! Don't you know I am the wealthiest man in the world? That is my discontent. Now I know there is no more to wealth: all that is possible I have attained, and yet I am dying empty. My life has been just a wastage. Next time, if God gives me another opportunity, I am not going to try money any more - it has failed.

He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

He who is greedy is always in want.