Greed

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin

Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles

When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice"

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country