Money is something, not everything, but without money, you cannot do anything in this world.
金钱并不是万能的,但没钱是万万不能的。
an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.
人们情愿拿出大笔的钱,也不愿毕生的心血毁于歹徒之手。