I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that f...or twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whisky, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops ... I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you'll think of me, I'll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will nev...er give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TI--E... Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart. He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you To get yourself some teeth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Johnny Clay: You like money. You got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart. So play it smart. Stay in charac...ter and you'll have money. Plenty of it. George'll have it and he'll blow it on you. Probably buy himself a five-cent cigar. Sherry Peatty: You don't know me very well, Johnny. I wouldn't think of letting George throw his money away on cigars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. It's like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, sh...avings, faggots and kindling nicely tipped with pitch will never light for me. I have never been present when a cigarette butt, extinct, thrown into a damp and isolated spot, started a conflagration in the California woods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The master plan was laid out months ago. Jack Kemp would give 200 rubber-chicken dinners (sometimes it's meatballs or just cocktai...ls) between Jan. 1, 1995, and Jan. l, 1996. What the plan did not say was that he would be expected to deliver the same lines, ingratiate himself to political hangers-on and, most humiliating of all, beg them for money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the ...religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. Well it doesn'...t, Mr. Potter. In the whole vast configuration of things I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »