It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

Money has no country.

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.