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I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.

I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.

I wonder now if you ever remember... Whether your June is all turned to December... Gone are those winters of chats and of dances... Gone the aroma of life's young romances... Ah! well enough, as you dance on in joyance... Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance.

I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from someone else's pocket and putting it into mine, still remaining within the confines of the law.

I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

I would rather lose money than trust

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.

Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.

Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

Less coin, less care.

Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a $79 billion surplus. It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close.

Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer.

Let's not only provide a jumpstart to the economy and immediately or save 3 million jobs, but let's also put a down payment on some of the structural problems that we have in our economy.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.

Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.

Like having your own licence to print money.

Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child in the greatest need but to the children of the highest bidder-the child of parents who, more frequently than not, have also enjoyed the same abundance when they were schoolchildren.

Make it just like a Mac.

Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.

Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Making money is pretty pointless and it needs constant attention.