Making Money Quotes - Page 23

• 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

  Desire, Incentives, Glory

  "Omnivore: Hatfield’s Quiet Farewell?". Boston Magazine Interview, www.bostonmagazine.com. January 27, 2010.

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• Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

  Juvenal

  Money, Men, Greed

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• I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Writing, Class

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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

  Accomplishment, Want, Said

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• My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not a thing for the human beings inside. They were just designed to make money.

  Robert Adams

  New York, Mountain, Firsts

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• Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

  John McAfee

  Idiot, Can Do

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• Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on. . . But you've got to begin. . . You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Money, Play, Done

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1605, Simon and Schuster

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• A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Children, Adults

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• It is the experience of those who have tried it, that working from a sense of duty, working for the work's sake, working as a service, instead of for a living, or to make money, or in order to hoard up wealth, brings blessings into the life.

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Work, Blessing, Order

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• We have always believed that it's possible to make money without being evil.

  Larry Page

  Money, Evil, Always Believe

  "More glass from Google: ceo Larry Page gets transparent" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 05, 2012.

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• Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Today

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• Ideas that change business models and that can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.

  John Day

  Ideas, Threatening, Models

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• If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.

  Woody Guthrie

  War, Forget, Killing

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• The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

  Srully Blotnick

  Money, Order, Evidence

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• If you make money, you might not make meaning.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Money, Might, Ifs

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• In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.

  P. T. Barnum

  Land, People, United States

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.5, Applewood Books

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• Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Writing, Long, Way

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• Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Real, Men, Hype

  "Why Do We All Praise Startups When They Receive Funding?" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. October 19, 201.

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• I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

  Dario Argento

  Kind, Film, Made

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• I had a moment where I realised I could do silly voices, that lots of people I knew couldn't do silly voices, and that thus I must be able to make money doing silly voices.

  Rob Brydon

  Silly, Voice, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

  Dirk Benedict

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Sin, Film

  "Ellen Burstyn - part two". The Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.

  Linwood Barclay

  Character, Plot, Fiction

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• I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

  Zach Braff

  Desire, Musician, Want

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• Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers - it does not come from the fashion industry. The fashion industry needs to make money; that's what we do. If people said, 'We want a 300 pound purple person,' the first industry to do it would be fashion.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fashion, Purple, People

  "Kelly Cutrone: ‘Society Has a Hyper-Emphasis On Thin and That Trend Comes From the Consumers’" by Nika Mavrody, www.thefashionspot.com. July 22nd, 2013.

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