Billy Ray Valentine (Trading Places)

Part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich

[On Roberts saying ‘I don’t know if I want to give up my whole management company and take it apart.’] Don’t be stupid. I’ll make you more money than you’ve made alone.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

To make a million, start with $900,000.

Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

I don’t mind that I’m fat. You still get the same money.

It’s like when you see all the slave movies. Why you gotta keep reminding us about slavery? Why don’t you show us – put Michael Jordan on a $20 bill.

More and more these days I find myself pondering how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money’s sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it’s just about a number. It’s never been anything I understood.

The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Bankruptcy stared me in the face, but one thought kept me calm; soon I’d be too poor to need an anti-theft alarm.