One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

The bastard. It's bad enough knowing he's stolen our money,but it's humiliating having to watch him spend it.

It pains me to think how much you are worth now.""I can't tell you that. If you can count it, you haven't got any.

How well they all knew each other now, he thought. In twelve weeks James felt he had come to know more about these three men than any of the so-called friends he'd known for twenty years. For the first time he understood why his father continually referred back to friendships formed during the war with men he normally would never have met. He realised how much he was going to miss Stephen when he returned to America. Success was, in fact, going to split them up.