Robert Menzies Quotes

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

I am not in Wall Street for my health.

'Wall Street' was the big movie of 1987, the year in which Harveys opened. It was a film about greed and self-indulgence, about hunger for success, and Michael Douglas's line, 'breakfast is for wimps,' became a mantra for anyone who wanted to get to the top.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.

In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

I want to ultimately own the world.

Money makes everybody evil when you think about it.

I am going to be the best, make the most money, and just do whatever I want, when I want.

I heard of the word 'rainmaker.' It means one particular star who could make a company or project rich and successful. Someone that makes it rain with money. I thought it was a really good concept, so I took over that idea to become the rainmaker.

There's a lot of money being generated by nerds right now. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the list goes on and on. Nerds make more money than our government. And with money comes power.

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones.

Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.

Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those, a job.

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

Money has yet to make anyone rich.