I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
Sure, it's nice to win. But there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose. . . . I don't love baseball, I like it. And to me, baseball means money, and that's all I care about.
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?
As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.
