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"Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market."

"I don't know which I hate most my bills or the money I pay them with..."

"I believe Money is too important to leave in the hands of government officials."

"Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about."

"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
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"I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read."


"When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist."


"Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital."


"We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is."


"Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man."


"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two."


"There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place."


"I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy."
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