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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money. ”
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. ”
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. ”
To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged. ”
People say, 'I'm only suing for the principle of the thing,' and I reply that I can't give you principle - only money. ”
When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional. ”
What's going to happen is that there will be a definite consensus that Europe is not working. The diagnosis will be to shed the currency and keep the rest, or that Europe is not working and a broader rejection - like in the U.K. ”
In the end, the politics of the euro zone weren't strong enough to create a fully integrated fiscal union with a common banking system, etc. ”
In addition to offering benefits to those who invest, carry out research, and create jobs, higher taxes on land and real-estate speculation would redirect capital toward productivity-enhancing spending - the key to long-term improvement in living standards. ”
Hedge funds are not noted for their long-term thinking - for them, a quarter is an eternity. ”