Top 100 Quotes About Making Money
#1. The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
Rudolf Bing
#2. Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
Val Kilmer
#4. There were no obvious applications, no clear ways of making money off the thing, but he knew there were people out there who, like him, desired to hold another person's hand anonymously.
Andrew John Schmitz
#5. A company has a greater responsibility than making money for its stockholders. We have a responsibility to our employees to recognize their dignity as human beings.
David Packard
#6. He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole life had any talent for making money.
John Steinbeck
#8. The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
Vinton Cerf
#9. In business, money is either an important thing or it is everything. Monopolists can afford to think about things other than making money; non-monopolists can't.
Peter Thiel
#10. You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.
Meredith Whitney
#11. I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.
Stephen Baldwin
#12. I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.
Anne Robinson
#13. The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.
Roman Abramovich
#14. In New Orleans I have noticed that people are happiest when they are going to funerals, making money, taking care of the dead, or putting on masks at Mardi Gras so nobody knows who they are.
Walker Percy
#15. Neuroscientists have found that the prospect of making money stimulates the same primitive reward circuits in the brain that cocaine does.
Atul Gawande
#16. Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.
Satish Kumar
#17. Internet marketing entrepreneurs have truly opened my eyes to just how important a quick turnaround time can be. Often times, an interview they conduct with me today is online by the next morning. The interviewee is then able to start making money less than 24 hours after the initial interview.
Marc Ostrofsky
#18. I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: 'I could be out there making money right now.'
Shay Carl
#19. The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading.
Victor Sperandeo
#20. It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.
David Spade
#21. They're measurements which express the goal of making money perfectly well, but which also permit you to develop operational rules for running your plant," he says. "There are three of them. Their names are throughput, inventory and operational expense.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
#22. Success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service.
Earl Nightingale
#23. The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
Irving Paul Lazar
#24. 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
#25. I have a lot of difficulty in a business culture that is only interested in making money. I can't see the point. What's the point of spending £10,000 just to make £20,000? Why not just keep the £10,000?
Peter Saville
#26. Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
#27. Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money.
Karin Dreijer Andersson
#28. Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls.
Doris Lilly
#29. Aldinger, collected his $100 million, Eisman was on his way to becoming the financial market's first socialist. "When you're a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off," he said. His mind was now fully
Michael Lewis
#30. For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise.
Will Allison
#31. To make your Opinion Count,
you have to do something more
than just making Money.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#32. I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers.
Harvey S. Firestone
#33. As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#34. When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.
William J.H. Boetcker
#35. Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.
Muhammad Yunus
#36. The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
Jimmy Webb
#37. If I don't sell any copies of my books/apps or if I sell a million copies, I'm still going to continue making them. I create because I'm passionate about the craft, making money was never the motivation.
Greg Pugh
#38. It's never been about making money.
Rob Zombie
#39. The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Josh Billings
#40. I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me.
Walt Disney
#41. Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
Ian MacKaye
#42. We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.
Marco Rubio
#43. When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.
Carmen Busquets
#44. Making money at gambling was like seeing ghosts: you never met someone who'd seen a ghost, only someone who knew someone who'd seen a ghost. You only met people who knew people who'd made a fortune at White's. Or on the racecourse.
Winston Graham
#45. I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
#46. I am at a stage in my life where I want to only do thing that I love. I only want to do things that make me happy. Making money is important, but it's not my ultimate driver.
Monita Rajpal
#47. Making money isn't hard in itself ... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#48. There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won't get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers.
Andrei Codrescu
#49. I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
Wayne Huizenga
#50. Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.
Thomas Carlyle
#51. I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.
Laura Bell Bundy
#52. I love doing voiceover work. I started doing voiceover work when I had just dropped out of school, and the first few professional jobs I got were plays, but then I started making money doing voice-overs.
Justin Long
#53. I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.
Peter Zumthor
#54. Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.
Frank Schaeffer
#56. Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.
George Osborne
#57. The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it.
Robert Heller
#58. Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
Muhammad Yunus
#59. I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
Henry Rollins
#60. Every minute you spend looking through clutter, wondering where you put this or that, being unable to focus because you're not organized costs you: time you could have spent with family or friends, time you could have been productive around the house, time you could have been making money.
Jean Chatzky
#61. If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.
Mitch Hedberg
#62. It's not about making money for themselves or the company, but making a difference in the lives of others.
Don Yaeger
#63. I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.
Axl Rose
#64. Do something you like that you feel is important. Don't worry about making money at it right away. If you try hard and long enough you will figure out a way to do it. Better to die happy than die rich.
Peter Menzel
#65. The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. Fashion pays.
Franco Moschino
#66. Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
Abel Ferrara
#67. Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.
Guy De Rothschild
#68. We are now after 7 months operation making money here.
Henry Wells
#69. I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.
Cilla Black
#70. For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.
Lizzy Caplan
#71. But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
Imran Khan
#72. The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
Peter Lynch
#73. We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations.
Satish Kumar
#74. My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.
Nick D'Aloisio
#75. At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community.
John Mackey
#76. My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.
Christina Aguilera
#77. So when you do board, the first class people, they're sitting there. A lot of them are working as your boarding. They have computers out and calculators. They're looking up at you like, Hey, we're making money right now! Right now we're making money.
Brian Regan
#78. Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.
Richard Dooling
#79. As a developer, it's a great feeling knowing you have made an impact. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes with that: you have to really put the city's needs first. It's not all about making money.
Stephen M. Ross
#80. Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
Ted Dekker
#81. I can't afford to waste my time making money. - JEAN LOUIS AGASSIZ
Anthony Robbins
#82. Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again.
Bruce Schneier
#83. Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. And in almost every case, we use up our lives making money, when we should be using our money to gain time.
Albert Camus
#84. Today, we see some "file sharing" sites that rely on fans uploading cracked copies of ebooks, and which then make money off those books by charging for downloads (via cash subscriptions or advertising). Again: I take a dim view of this. They're making money off the back of my work without paying me.
Charles Stross
#85. I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?
Jenny McCarthy
#86. Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things I liked. But I fell into the money thing. I now don't feel guilty about it, but I am determined to give away the bulk of it and enjoy doing it.
David Rubenstein
#87. Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.
Paul Hawken
#88. The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
Al Franken
#89. There was a guy with extra millions in the bank. And he spent all his free time, all his energy, spending his money. His cars, his houses, his vacations. Just like the rich bankers here in Luxembourg, whose business was making money and whose passion was spending it.
Chris Pavone
#90. Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life.
Darren Johnson
#91. I have a sixth sense, but not the other five. If I wasn't making money, they'd put me away.
Red Skelton
#92. When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you can say the person that is in charge of the making money for the family is doing the right thing.
Dan Ariely
#93. I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.
Ahmed Rashid
#94. The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.
Donald Glover
#95. He concluded that there was effectively no way for an accountant assigned to audit a giant Wall Street firm to figure out whether it was making money or losing money.
Michael Lewis
#96. You know what? I'm sure drug dealers on the street, in some way, they are making money. That's what I equate it to. Here is the thing: you have to understand, with psychiatry, there is no science behind it. And to pretend that there is a science behind it is criminal
Tom Cruise
#97. The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
Bruce Sterling
#98. I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.
Frank Deford
#99. I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
Rachel Nichols
#100. I have a saying: 'I'm good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.'
Tyler James Williams
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