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If you can actually count your money then you are not a really rich man.

Quoted in The Pendulum Years (1970)
That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?
Dollar making is not necessarily business.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it.

My Life and Work (rewritten with Samuel Crowther; 1922)
Money is like an arm or a leg, use it or lose it.

Interview (November 1931)
Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Sense And Sensibility
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

A Room of One's Own
Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money did not change.

No Country for Old Men
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can�t buy.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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