quotes about Making Money
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
-- Abel FerraraSource : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins'" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
-- Adam Levine -
I always feel like 'as long as I'm doin' what I love to do, the money's naturally gonna come.' When you start thinkin' business and you start thinkin' 'What's hot? What's the wave? Who is hot? Let's get at that person,' it becomes a point where you're tryin' to strategize to make money. And that's always a gamble.
-- AkonSource : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. November 12, 2008.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
-- Alan Greenspan -
I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.
-- Alan Sugar -
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
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Making money from money is like aerobatics.
-- Alisher Usmanov -
If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.
-- Amanda Donohoe -
Life can be dangerous; just let it be! When we shake off what we perceive as boundaries, that is where the bliss really is.
-- Ann Wilson -
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I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.
-- Anna FarisSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.
-- Ansel Elgort -
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
-- Aristotle -
Life started getting good when I started making money.
-- Balthazar Getty -
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I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.
-- Barbara Hambly -
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
-- Benjamin Graham -
You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction
-- Bill GurleySource : "Gurley and Om" by Fred Wilson, www.businessinsider.com. December 13, 2012.
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I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.
-- Bob Parsons -
Occasionally when you’re in that zone, striving to operate at your highest levels, you get consumed. You forget to eat and shower. But that can be a good thing. No one makes money eating or showering.
-- Brandon Steiner -
These days no one can make money on the ***** airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.
-- C. R. Smith -
It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.
-- C. R. Smith -
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Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.
-- C. Wright Mills -
I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.
-- Carre Otis -
I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.
-- Charlie Trotter -
It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.
-- Christina Stead -
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You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.
-- Colin Quinn -
I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.
-- Cornelius Vanderbilt -
I have been insane on the subject of money-making all my life.
-- Cornelius Vanderbilt -
No man can Become Rich without enriching others.
-- Dan Miller -
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Anyone who says network news cannot be profitable doesn't know what he is talking about. But anyone who says it must "always," make money is misguided and irresponsible.
-- Dan Rather -
Make Money a CENTRAL priority. Â This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.
-- Dario Argento -
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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
-- David Bailey -
She was making great money at personal appearances.
-- David GestSource : "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.
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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 -
When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we are out to make money.
-- David Sklansky -
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To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.
-- David Spade -
Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.
-- David SternSource : "Curious Guy: David Stern". Interview with Bill Simmons, www.espn.com. February 16, 2006.
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There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money.
-- David Tepper -
If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.
-- Daymond JohnSource : Twitter post from Jun 9, 2016
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At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.
-- Dee Dee Warwick -
Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.
-- Dhirubhai Ambani -
I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?
-- Don Bluth -
I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
-- Don Van Vliet -
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It’s not about making money for themselves or the company, but making a difference in the lives of others.
-- Don Yaeger -
I know how to make money and I'll make it.
-- Dottie WestSource : From an interview with the "Tennesseean" newspaper reporter Robert K. Oermann, 1991.
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Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer.
-- E.C. Riegel -
A lot of people would rather understand the market than make money
-- Ed Seykota -
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One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.
-- Edouard Bourdet -
It's a sin to have your films not to make money.
-- Ellen BurstynSource : "Ellen Burstyn - part two". The Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.
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I started as a model when I was 14 because I wanted to make money.
-- Emmanuelle SeignerSource : "Emmanuelle Seigner on 'Diving Bell'". Interview with Ruthe Stein, www.sfgate.com. May 11, 2008.
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I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.
-- Ester Dean -
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You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.
-- Euvin Naidoo -
Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
-- Felix Dennis -
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 -
Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.
-- Frank Schaeffer -
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Practice makes polish and polish makes money.
-- Garrison Wynn -
Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
-- Gary Ackerman -
I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.
-- Gautam Adani -
Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.
-- Gavyn DaviesSource : "Gavyn Davies does the maths". www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2006.
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I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.
-- Gene Simmons -
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.
-- George Leigh MallorySource : "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.
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Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.
-- Giorgio Moroder -
It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.
-- Gordon Bethune -
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U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans.
-- Gore Vidal -
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
-- Greer GarsonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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How would you like to make money in real estate?
-- Greg Proops -
If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.
-- Haile GebrselassieSource : "Haile Gebrselassie shares secrets of his success". Interview with Susannah Palk, www.cnn.com. April 15, 2011.
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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
-- Harold Rosenberg -
I can't help from making money, that is all.
-- Helena Rubinstein -
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
-- Henry Fielding -
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 -
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I love makin' music, so whether I'ma make money at it or not, I'ma still do it. The thing is, I've gotten to a point where I don't have to use music to make a livin', so I can do it for fun like I used to when I was young.
-- Ice Cube -
If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.
-- Ihara SaikakuSource : Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse: Or, The Millionaire's Gospel Modernised. Nippon Eitai-gura, Or Daifuku Shin Chōja Kyō (1688)”, Cambridge University Press
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It isn't me making money as much as it is me spending my money in a way that I feel is effective. My methodology is to say I'm not just going to throw money at a problem but rather personally invest myself in it.
-- Immortal Technique -
The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
-- Irving Paul Lazar -
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There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.
-- Jack D. SchwagerSource : Jack D. Schwager (2012). “The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons
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I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith -
Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.
-- James FrancoSource : James Franco (2013). “Actors Anonymous”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music
-- James Marsters -
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Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.
-- Jerry Greenfield -
Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money.
-- Jessica Hahn -
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
-- Jimmy Wales -
There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!
-- Joan ChenSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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You can make money or you can make excuses. Your choice.
-- John Addison -
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
-- John D. Rockefeller -
I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
-- John D. Rockefeller -
You can make money two ways - make more, or spend less.
-- John Hope Bryant -
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They make money the old fashioned way... they earn it.
-- John HousemanSource : John Houseman (1986). “Unfinished business: a memoir”
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Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.
-- John McAfee -
Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.
-- John McAfee -
The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.
-- John Seely Brown -
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Apple stood for something and had a reason for being that wasn't just about making money.
-- Jonathan Ive -
I keep thinking they’re gonna call me. I keep thinking they’re gonna crunch the numbers and think, oh, we can make money with this! And they don’t.
-- Joss Whedon -
I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.
-- Judd ApatowSource : Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. July 9, 2008.
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I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.
-- Juliana Hatfield -