Making Money Quotes - Page 11

• With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Two

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• It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

  Mickey Rourke

  Stars, Actors, Movie Star

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• Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Writing, People

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• I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Careers, Doing Me

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• Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

  Bob Seger

  Juniors, Junior High, Way

  "Bob Seger Changes His Tune About Detroit". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 8, 2007.

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• The book 'Do You!' is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you - then the freedom comes. And we're only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn't make happy.

  Russell Simmons

  Book, Voice, Make Happy

  "Does Russell Simmons Serve Hip-Hop?". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. June 4, 2007.

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• Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

  Peter Singer

  Commitment, Self, Leader

  "Putting ethics before profits" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

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• First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Firsts, Drummer

  "The Big Beat: Conversations with Rock's Great Drummers". Book by Max Weinberg and Robert Santelli, 1984.

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• If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

  James Surowiecki

  Needs, Claims, Taxes

  "Private Inequity". www.newyorker.com. January 30, 2012.

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• Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Matter, Behavior

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• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  Ted Turner

  Money, War, Blood

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• Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

  Tracey Ullman

  Growing Up, Dad, Kids

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• In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.

  Jesse Ventura

  Wrestling, Crowds, Eras

  "Interview: Jesse Ventura biography". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  Orson Welles

  Hobbies, Abandon, Persons

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• I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

  Fred Wilson

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.

  Debra Winger

  Stars, People, World

  Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2008.

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• Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

  Virginia Woolf

  Money, Writing, Novel

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”

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• Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Names, Today, Concepts

  The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. November 20, 2007.

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• Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Incentives, Makin Money

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• I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Assuming, Economic, Source

  "Social Business and the Pursuit of Happiness" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2013.

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• We developed microfinance to fight loan sharks - I was telling people don't go to loan sharks - not trying to take advantage and make money for myself. I would be a junior loan shark if I did ... It is not a panacea.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Fighting, Sharks, People

  "Muhammad Yunus: 'Business is a beautiful mechanism to solve problems'". Interview with Liz Ford, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

  Felix Dennis

  Addiction, Shakes, Makin Money

  "The nine lives of Felix Dennis: 'I've lived an unbelievable life, even if I did do my best to kill myself'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2013.

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• People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

  Felix Dennis

  Thinking, Tunnels, People

  "Dennis the menace" by Michael Pilgrim, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2002.

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• What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

  Margaret Heffernan

  People, Able, Want

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• Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

  John Steinbeck

  Business, Men, Clothes

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.64, Penguin

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