The most 'famous' reference is the Shirley MacLaine line in Steel Magnolias (1989). Sebastian Mallaby is the author of several books, including More Money Than God and The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan. Dazzling, smart, and original, More Money than God mixes up the angels and devils of history and hope into realms of greater being. "In MORE MONEY THAN GOD, his smart history of the hedge fund business, Mallaby does more than explain how finance's richest moguls made their loot. Scott Patterson reviews Sebastian Mallaby's "More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite." > Ouiser Boudreaux: The only reason people are nice to me is because I have more money than God. Sebastian Mallaby's book 'More Money Than God,'documents the rise of hedge funds, from the very first venture in 1949 to the giants that they are now. Bolstered by Mallaby’s unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and … —Naomi Shihab Nye There’s something huge going on nearly all the time—as well as something intricately tender too. He argues that the obsessive, charismatic oddballs of the hedge fund world are Wall Street's future-and possibly its salvation." The best antidote to … More Money Than God concludes that, contrary to conventional wisdom, sound policy should encourage hedge funds' proliferation. … A former Financial Times contributing editor and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. “The firm found it could charge clients almost anything it pleased: It billed them for expenses amounting to more than 5 percent of their capital before slapping on the 20 percent performance fee.” ― Sebastian Mallaby, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite