Raymond Chandler Quote

There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.

The Chandler Collection (Pan Books, 1983), page 403
Also in: Later Novels & Other Writings (ed. 1995)