A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Money Quotes
If you can’t drink a lobbyist’s whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don’t belong in politics.
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
No matter what their income, a depressing number of Americans believe that if only they had twice as much, they would inherit the estate of happiness promised them in the Declaration on Independence. The man who receives $15,000 a year is sure that he could relieve his sorrow if he had only $30,000 a year; […]
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
We’re bored now. We’re all bored. But has it ever occurred to you, Wally, that in the process which creates this boredom that we see in the world now may very well be a self-perpetuating unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money?
The instinctive sense of the dishonor which money-purchase does to art is so strong that sometimes a man of letters who can pay his way otherwise refuses pay for his work, as Lord Byron did, for a while, from a noble pride, and as Count Tolstoy has tried to do, from a noble conscience.
An author whose name is known everywhere, and whose reputation is commensurate with the boundaries of his country, if it does not transcend them, shall have the income, say, of a rising young physician, known to a few people in a subordinate city. In view of this fact, so humiliating to an author in the […]
