Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.