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If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars. ”
No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn't create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected. ”
I liked money more than going to school. ”
My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it. ”
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. ”
When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money. ”
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again. ”
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money. ”
Government is inevitably going to play a very significant role in infrastructure, and in a country with a federal system where vibrancy and economic health depend on interstate commerce, it's not going to be private enterprise or state governments that will give you things like an interstate highway system. ”
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. ”