Lucrative Quotes

#1. I almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.

Matt Kuchar

#2. Hip hop in its purest form has evolved, inspired, educated and created a lucrative independent revenue stream for what was once a poverty-stricken, hopeless class of artists.

Carlos Wallace

#3. Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

Warren Farrell

#4. It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.

Adrien Brody

#5. That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

Jackson Browne

#6. Those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satiated.

C.S. Harris

#7. what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an 'appointment') which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?

George Eliot

#8. It is a pretty odd profession - tickling people - but it can be lucrative.

George Miller

#9. It became a lucrative misconception, that movement in any direction is progression

Canibus

#10. When I sold my first book, 'A Conspiracy of Tall Men,' it was part of a two-book deal. It wasn't hugely lucrative, but it was enough money for me to quit the paralegal job I had in San Francisco.

Noah Hawley

#11. Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.

Jim Gaffigan

#12. Create a high converting lead page, build a quality email subscriber list and earn lucrative affiliate commissions.

Money

#13. From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

Ferdinand Lassalle

#14. If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. NBA has a selfish rationale. It saves the owners money by delaying the time a player gets to a second, more lucrative contract. Even the player's union is on board. There are only 450 jobs in the NBA, and the one-and-done protects veterans' jobs.

Sonny Vaccaro

#16. Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.

Esther Williams

#17. Personalities seem in many cases to dominate the lucrative endorsement market. But that doesn't upset me. What upsets me is when not enough attention is paid to the product-the game.

Jerry West

#18. Today's schoolchildren and college students can imagine little else but the search for a lucrative job.

Tony Judt

#19. Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn't easy, but it's fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.

Guy Kawasaki

#20. I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.

Owen Hart

#21. When crime was working as it was supposed to it was very dull. Very lucrative and very dull.

E.L. Doctorow

#22. We leave lucrative jobs to take low-paying ones that provide a clearer sense of purpose.

Daniel H. Pink

#23. I wouldn't have to drop out of academia and take a more lucrative position waiting tables at the faculty club.

Leonard Mlodinow

#24. The idea of public service was instilled in me by watching my father, who shared that he was far more fulfilled in his public service than by his former lucrative corporate jobs.

Queen Noor Of Jordan

#25. Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.

Carlos Alazraqui

#26. We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise.

Leila Janah

#27. The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

Conan O'Brien

#28. I know it's financially lucrative to go out on my own, but I don't like it. It's really hard work, just the performance aspect. I like people who look like they've been together for too long and sound like they've been together too long. I like rock n' roll bands.

Jason Isbell

#29. I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.

Yancy Butler

#30. Whenever I'm asked what kind of writing is the most lucrative, I have to say ransom notes.

H.N. Swanson

#31. To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Thomas Paine

#32. I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

Jerry Hall

#33. And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

Josh Radnor

#34. As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.

Taryn Manning

#35. For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.

Tracy Morgan

#36. Luckily, I've never been offered a directing job that was lucrative. I've never heard, "Here's $800,000 to remake Sisters."

Lloyd Kaufman

#37. The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

George Bernard Shaw

#38. It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

Edmund Burke

#39. A creative mind seems lunatic but ends lucrative.

Bukoye Micheal

#40. Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

Susan Orlean

#41. As a teenager, I developed a great interest in not only horse breeding but also horse racing and used to bet based on red-hot tips. I realized that becoming a bookmaker would be very lucrative, but Dad put his foot down, saying it was an inappropriate career.

Cyrus S. Poonawalla

#42. Monty Python only became valuable when it was sold to Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in America. They didn't pay much either, but the series has been shown repeatedly, which led to lucrative tapes, CDs and DVDs.

Eric Idle

#43. Communal forests around the world are being turned into privatized tree farms and preserves so their owners can collect something called "carbon credits," a lucrative scam I'll explore later.

Naomi Klein

#44. Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there.

Graham Hawkes

#45. Apparently it was very lucrative to be a vampire.

Lara Adrian

#46. Many of his coworkers on Luna had made lucrative side businesses offering plastic surgery, melatonin adjustments, and body reconstruction

Marissa Meyer

#47. I've said this over the years publicly - this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox.

Jerry Reinsdorf

#48. I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

Donald Dunn

#49. Redrafts can be very lucrative for me, but you must understand that if films go through many drafts or writers it's because someone doesn't want to do the picture and never will.

William Monahan

#50. The real difficulty for smaller films, when they're made independently and it's time to go for a distributor, sometimes if it's a tough film and the people who financed it need their money back right away, it's much easier and lucrative to take a DVD deal.

Willem Dafoe

#51. My daughter decided to embrace and celebrate who she was. She was a size 2 at one time, but she decided she didn't want to be hungry anymore. I think that's how you turn it around. Today, more and more designers are recognizing how lucrative that market is.

Beverly Johnson

#52. Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.

Rod Liddle

#53. When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.

Matt Gonzalez

#54. Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit

Eminem

#55. The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.

Brenda Laurel

#56. My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.

Jessica Savitch

#57. Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula One cars are now. Perhaps Robot Wars in space will be a lucrative spectator sport. If humans venture back to the moon, and even beyond, they may carry commercial insignia rather than national flags.

Martin Rees

#58. Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.

Kurt Busch

#59. Instead of drilling down and finding ways to creatively meet the target cost as Ford did, if companies give in to the tempting route of either bumping up the strategic price or cutting back on utility, they are not on the path to lucrative blue waters.

W.Chan Kim

#60. I've had wonderfully lucrative offers to do another network series. I could do that again and have a very luscious retirement.

James Woods

#61. In my experience, those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satisfied. For them, war is opportunity, not hardship or sorrow. After all, it is rarely their sons who lie in unmarked graves on foreign soil.

C.S. Harris

#62. My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

#63. One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.

Milton Friedman

#64. Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#65. [...] as with all vices, vast and lucrative industries are ready to supply the necessary material. It sometimes seems as if most of the news consists of outrage porn, selected specifically to pander to our impulse to judge and punish, to get us off on righteous indignation.

Tim Kreider

#66. I haven't had the most lucrative career. If I'm going to be completely honest, I'm a one-hit wonder.

Steve Forbert

#67. Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.

Rose George

#68. I don't stay in one discipline because it's more lucrative than another. In fact, the most successful thing I ever did was 'Just Kids,' for which I had absolutely no expectations.

Patti Smith

#69. Most of the cricketers are doing side businesses apart from playing the sport, so why should I be left behind. I feel there is a lot of money in making films, and since Punjabi cinema is doing good, this is a lucrative option for me.

Harbhajan Singh

#70. Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

Yoko Ono

#71. Eva was only a slut. She never had the requisite motivation to be anything so useful or lucrative as a whore.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#72. Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

Kathy Ireland