Not on the wealthy, who buy only what they want when they want it, was the vast superstructure of industry founded and built up, but on those who, aching for a luxury beyond their reach and for a leisure for ever denied them, could be bullied or wheedled into spending their few hardly won shillings on whatever might give them, if only for a moment, a leisured and luxurious illusion.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there.

In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie.

The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.

I think in London - and I don't wanna offend anybody in America, but this is a real statement - they still have the right approach to making music. In the U.S., people see it as a way to make money; they see it as a means to get out. It's a hustle, which is great - any way you can provide for your family that's legal is fantastic.

If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.

I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.

That's just the way the cards fall in the UFC. It's about what's going to make them the most money. It's not about what makes the most sense.

The moment I write out a cheque, it's an asset I have written off.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt to slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.