Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000), Walk On
“What good is the moon if you can't buy or sell it?”
Den of Thieves (1992), by John B. Stewart
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Ivan Boesky 3
American investor, white-collar criminal 1937Related quotes
“He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.”
Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. III.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land?”
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“Money can't buy you love, but it can get you some really good chocolate ginger biscuits. ”
p, 125
The Morals of Economic Irrationalism (1920)
“They put lipstick on the pig to try to sell it to somebody that didn't know what they were buying.”
CNBC House of Cards interview, 2009.
“Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.”
Source: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/lkbak10.txt (1888), Ch. 9.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)