Lou Mannheim (Hal Holbrook) Jesus you can't make a buck in this market, the country's goin' to hell faster than when that son of a bitch Roosevelt was in charge. Too much cheap money sloshing around the world. The worst mistake we ever made was letting Nixon get off the gold standard. Lou Mannheim (Hal Holbrook) Stick to the fundamentals. That's how IBM and Hilton were built. Good things, sometimes, take time. Lou Mannheim (Hal Holbrook) You can't get a little bit pregnant.