I found out that money is the most important thing in the world. And I don't intend ever to be without it again.
7 seconds sound clip from the Gone with the Wind (1939) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:27:25 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- You weren't so particular about owning slaves.
- We didn't treat them that way.
- Besides, I'd have freed them all when father died, if the war hadn't already freed them.
- Oh, I'm sorry, but have you forgotten what it's like without money?
- I'm going to make money enough so the Yankees could never take Tara away from me.
- I'm going to make it the only way I know how.
- But we're not the only Southerners who've suffered.
- Look at all our friends. They're keeping their honour and their kindness too.
- I haven't got any use for fools who won't help themselves.
[...]