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"We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing."
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"The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief."

"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."

"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."
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"That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man."


"We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else."


"If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move."


"I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do."


"My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation."


"You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud."
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