Jeffrey Carr: I don't like hype, but hype sells.
Jason Baptiste: If you spent the money on an original iPod in 2001 on Apple stock ($499), you would have $14,513.78 today.
Nicholas Kristof: CEOs of the largest American companies earned an average of 42 times as much as the average worker in 1980, but 531 times as much in 2001.
Josh Kraushaar: Money chases momentum -- not the other way around.
Decius: The thing that sucks about freedom of speech is that rich people can afford more speech than you can.
D'Angelo Barksdale: It ain't about right. It's about money.
Molly Young: The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that the first kind gain momentum from boredom and the second kind don't.
Tara: Life is about wanting to have, and then getting, and then having, and then, like, wanting more.
Charles P. Pierce: Truth is what moves the needle. Fact is what sells.
Sarah Silverman: You're very free if you don't love money.
Decius: Is our curse the endless pursuit of a happiness which can never be attained?
John Tierney: When people were asked to anticipate how much extra money and time they would have in the future, they realistically assumed that money would be tight, but they expected free time to magically materialize.
Zadie Smith: If it's not for money and it's not for girls -- what is it for? With Zuckerberg we have a real American mystery. Maybe it's not mysterious and he's just playing the long game, holding out: not a billion dollars but a hundred billion dollars. Or is it possible he just loves programming?
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