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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment. (Tom Kiana)
Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put. (Tom Kiana)
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections. (Tom Kiana)
Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor. (Tom Kiana)
After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. (Tom Kiana)
Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend. (Tom Kiana)
After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself. (Tom Kiana)
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. (Tom Kiana)
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms. (Tom Kiana)
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms. (Tom Kiana)
When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you. (Tom Kiana)
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. (Tom Kiana)
There is nothing so habit-forming as money. (Tom Kiana)
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing. (Tom Kiana)
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth. (Tom Kiana)
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. (Tom Kiana)
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. (Tom Kiana)
Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion. (Tom Kiana)
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do. (Tom Kiana)
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. (Tom Kiana)
Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it. (Tom Kiana)
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