"Business? In this business, you're always one step away from bankruptcy. Funny money, credit, speculation... "Somewhere in this country there's a little old lady with seventy-nine dollars and twenty-five cents.
And the five cents is a Buffalo nickel...
"If she cashes in her investment, the whole thing'll collapse -- General Motors, the Pentagon, the DuPont Sisters and the whole shebang...
"We're all runnin' downhill. Gotta keep runnin' faster all the time or it'll all fall down..."
— the late great character actor, Dub Taylor, as disgruntled gas station operator in 1974 film, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot