Making Money Quotes - Page 15

• If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before. . . . Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

  Ayn Rand

  Names, People, Firsts

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.38, Penguin

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• One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.

  Edouard Bourdet

  Life, Spending

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• My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

  Joyce Maynard

  Jobs, Cancer, Writing

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• A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Money, Men, Views

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, 1989.

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• The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Money, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Climate is not responding to greenhouse gases in the way we thought it might. If increasing carbon dioxide is in fact increasing climate change, its impact is smaller than natural variation. People are being misled by people making money out of this.

  Chris de Freitas

  Impact, People, Climate

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• The last 10 to 20 years you’d think that it has been all about VCs making money, because that’s all we hear about. But really it is all about VCs failing and failing to return capital and being f**king idiots. VCs are stupid. They are absolutely stupid. Does anyone want to challenge that statement? Does anyone think that VCs are not stupid?

  Dave McClure

  Kings, Stupid, Thinking

  "Dave McClure is ripping VCs again: They’re f***ing arrogant and stupid a**holes" By John Cook, www.geekwire.com. August 22, 2012.

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• I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn,
  Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken.
  Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down,
  Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.

  Rakim

  Strong, Queens, Rap

  Song: Juice

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• Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Giving, Hip Hop

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• In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from purgatory, and the Church literally (and with breathtaking presumption) issued signed certificates specifying the number of days off that had been purchased. . . . And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history. . . .

  Richard Dawkins

  Rip, Numbers, Religion

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• I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

  Jonathan Frakes

  Reality, Thinking, Hollywood

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• I think I'm a very pretty girl. I'm never going to pretend to think otherwise. There are even days I feel I'm fabulously hot and sexy. I'm grateful for my looks. My family is doing well because of them. I can make career choices and turn down movies because of them and I have been making money from them for 17 years. My looks are who I am.

  Milla Jovovich

  Girl, Sexy, Grateful

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• I'm going to miss Blockbuster. I'm gonna miss being CEO and all that stuff. We had an atmosphere where everybody was happy. When people make money, they're happy.

  Wayne Huizenga

  People, Missing, Atmosphere

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• ... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Needs, Fool

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Artist, Secret, Enthusiasm

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• I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Saws, Lawyer, Reefs

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat”, p.344, Essential Library

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• Our business is not based on having information about you. You’re not our product. Our product are these, and this watch, and Macs and so forth. And so we run a very different company. I think everyone has to ask, how do companies make their money? Follow the money. And if they’re making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried.

  Tim Cook

  Running, Thinking, Data

  "Tim Cook Basically Just Said He Was 'Offended' By The Way Google And Amazon Do Business" by Jim Edwards, www.businessinsider.com. September 16, 2014.

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• 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

  Money, Sound, Made

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• If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.

  Ihara Saikaku

  Done, Losing, Process

  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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• When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'

  Mitch Daniels

  Leader, Proud, Indiana

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask myself, is my work fun and does it make me happy? I believe that the answer to that is more important than fame or fortune. If it stops being fun, I ask why? If I can't fix it, I stop doing it.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Fun, Believe

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• Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Differences, Independence, Being Free

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.339, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Change your focus from making money to serving more people. Serving people makes the money come in.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Focus, Serving

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jan 19, 2012

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• You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

  Arthur Rock

  Money, People, Building

  Interview with Rob Walker, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.

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