Making Money Quotes - Page 22

• Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

  Glenn Miller

  Umpires, Judging, Musician

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• I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.

  Melita Norwood

  People, Ordinary, Cost

  Quoted in the New York Times, 13 September 1999. Treason for health care! Why did the USSR's spies never seem to know anything true about the USSR?

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• The fact is that many countries that call themselves free succumbed to medical dictatorship...people are sicker and less healthy...A country which mandates vaccination is not a free country...It is a country of zombies who do what they are told by vested interests who intimidate them and use them to make money.

  Viera Scheibner

  Country, Vaccines, People

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• Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the heat& smell of gunpowder, making moneyfloat from hand to hand. The next momenta rocket pushes a white fistthrough night sky, & they scatter like birds& fall into the shape their liveshave become.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Fall, Night, White

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• If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers.

  Robin Williams

  Teacher, Inspiration, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Professor Philip Brainard". "Flubber", 1997.

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• To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Kids, Engineering

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• I set up this magazine called Student when I was 16, and I didn't do it to make money - I did it because I wanted to edit a magazine. There wasn't a national magazine run by students, for students. I didn't like the way I was being taught at school. I didn't like what was going on in the world, and I wanted to put it right.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Business, School

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• I’m not producing movies to make money

  Ranbir Kapoor

  Producing Movies

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• I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

  Mark Helprin

  Book, Ideas, Selling

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• 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

  Passion, Thinking, Creating

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• I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.

  Gregory Maguire

  Thinking, Stories, Care

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• Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

  Mel Torme

  Purpose, Records, Whole

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• My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.

  Jerome Kerviel

  Track, Scandal, Kind

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• I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Play, Long

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• I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art, Believe, Creator

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• I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.

  J. Cole

  Successful, Rapper, World

  "Hot Topic: J. Cole" by Katie Amey, www.elle.com. June 17, 2013.

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• 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.

  Akon

  Long, Hot, Wave

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. November 12, 2008.

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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. Schwager

  Way, Irony, Difficult

  Jack D. Schwager (2012). “The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

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• How to make money from Facebook and Twitter: (1) Go to 'Account Settings' (2) Click 'Deactivate your account' (3) Go back to work!

  Papa CJ

  Back To Work, Clicks, Accounts

  FaceBook post by Papa CJ from May 04, 2013

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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

  Differences, Making A Difference, Company

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• Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push a certain patent policy not because of ideals,but because it is the policy that makes them the most money. And it only makes them the most money because of a certain corruption within our political system-a corruption the drug companies are certainly not responsible for. The corruption is our own politicians' failure of integrity.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Integrity, Law, Political

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.191, Penguin

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• No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Frustration, Rejection, Too Much

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• When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cities, Community, Soul

  "The Rock". Play by T. S. Eliot, 1934.

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• I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

  Judd Apatow

  Thinking, Trying, Hollywood

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• If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.

  Tony Dungy

  Thinking, Hey, Just Saying

  "What's Next For Retired NFL Coach Tony Dungy?". "Morning Edition" Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 3, 2009.

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