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Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.


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No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.



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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.



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A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.



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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.



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Venus can see at night without eyes.



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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic



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When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.



About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.



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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.



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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.





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I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.



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