Money Motivated Quotes

#1. If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.

Daron Malakian

#2. I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.

Anais Nin

#3. I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#4. I was motivated to join in large part because my family needed the money. I would like to say how patriotic we were, but really what motivated me was the excitement my mother would get in receiving a check for my older brother.

Charles Rangel

#5. been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true. He had neither Ellison's conspicuous consumption needs nor Gates's philanthropic impulses nor the competitive urge to see how high

Walter Isaacson

#6. Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money.

Christian Finnegan

#7. As for the politicians, like everyone else in America, they were motivated by money, not ideals.

Charles Dickens

#8. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.

Eric S. Raymond

#9. I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.

Yuri Milner

#10. I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact that someone is willing to pay to read what we write assures us that we have indeed written.

M.V. Carey

#11. A reward-sensitive person is highly motivated to seek rewards - from a promotion to a lottery jackpot to an enjoyable evening out with friends. Reward sensitivity motivates us to pursue goals like sex and money, social status and influence.

Susan Cain

#12. The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

Erykah Badu

#13. My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

Michael Pollan

#14. I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.

RuPaul

#15. If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

Larry Page

#16. Money. Man is always motivated by money, my dad said to me once. It can work for us, or it can enslave us. Even when we have much, we feel like we need more. No matter how much we have.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#17. I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that anything you did you'd have to do on your own, so it does make you quite motivated.

Terry Leahy

#18. We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.

David Karp

#19. There are too many over-fed, under-motivated Christians hiding behind the excuse that God has not spoken to them. They are waiting to hear voices or see dreams - all the while living to make money, to provide for their future, to dress well and have fun.

Floyd McClung

#20. You think Ivy's a planner? She has nothing on a motivated elf with too much money.

Kim Harrison

#21. I fear just one thing : Money! Greed
was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus

Mother Teresa

#22. You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

Eric S. Raymond

#23. Don't chase the money ... chase the passion. Because that's what is going to keep you happy and motivated and jumping out of that bed Monday morning.

Tyra Banks

#24. I've never been motivated by money. My peers and colleagues inspire me.

Robin Chase

#25. I never cared about money because I never needed money, you know what I mean? When I was 12 to 17 I never saw any of the money, so the money never motivated me.

Ricky Schroder

#26. The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed.

Ross Perot

#27. Investors don't care about your dreams and goals. They love that you have them. They love that you are motivated by them. Investors care about how they are going to get their money back and then some. Family cares about your dreams. Investors care about money.

Mark Cuban

#28. To you, being rich might mean owning a goat farm in South Carolina. For your best friend, it might mean being able to start her own business selling wine over the Internet. Whatever the case, youre probably not motivated by the money itself, but by what the money could let you be and do.

J.D. Roth

#29. I'm in the very fortunate position as a young actor to not have to take the first job that comes along. I'm not motivated by money at this stage in my life, I'm motivated by work.

Martin Compston

#30. I have never been motivated by money.

Robin Chase

#31. The person passionate about what he or she is doing will outwork and outlast the guy motivated solely by making money.

Reid Hoffman