Making Money Quotes - Page 29

• you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Motivation, Book, Writing

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• The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.

  Margaret Halsey

  Business, Successful, Training

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• A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Business, Groups

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• There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Play, Black

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.

  Margaret Halsey

  Sports, Easter, Sex

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization. Nor is there anything random, casual or accidental about the United States as a business society. It is thoroughly well integrated - organized from top to bottom for the maximum efficiency of commerce and industry, for the maximum efficiency of making money.

  Margaret Halsey

  Military, Civilization, United States

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Profit, Company

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• There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!

  Anita Roddick

  Money, Two, Way

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• The theater has fallen into the hands of real estate men and syndicates and those who have no love or interest in the stage or its life, but who have considered it principally as a means to make money.

  Eva Le Gallienne

  Real, Mean, Men

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• money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Lying, Order, Wrecks

  Ama Ata Aidoo (1987). “The Dilemma of a Ghost ; Anowa: Two Plays”, Prentice Hall

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• There is a secret to investing that cuts a path directly to the profits that you're looking for. The secret is simplicity. The more elementary your investment style, the more confident you can be of making money in the long run.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Running, Money, Cutting

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.691, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't help from making money, that is all.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Helping, I Can

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• The way to become rich is to make money, not to save it.

  Kate Chopin

  Way, Rich, Become Rich

  Kate Chopin (2016). “THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South”, p.69, e-artnow

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• 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

  Hands, Easy, Walks

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.

  Christina Stead

  Money, Work, Unlucky

  Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”

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• money is a more taboo subject than sex. If you don't believe me, think about this: you have friends who tell you the intimate details of their sex-lives but they would be shocked if you asked them how much money they make.

  Patricia King

  Money, Sex, Believe

  Patricia King (1992). “Never work for a jerk!”

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• I just want choices. Its not about making money and having a lot of friends in Hollywood; thats the last thing I want.

  Bojana Novakovic

  Choices, Hollywood, Lots Of Friends

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• 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

  Vision, Want, Politician

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• It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

  Ken Baumann

  Artist, Machines, Figures

  "Go Forth (vol. 6)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 7, 2012.

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• I could never release something on the label I didn't personally love. The label's really an extension of my own musical career, and I'm intensely involved with every aspect personally, so it'd be a betrayal to myself if I released something simply because I thought it would make money.

  Michael Gira

  Betrayal, Careers, Musical

  Interview with Michael Idov, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2005.

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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

  Want, Admirable

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• I'm actually a lot happier because I work as a teacher; more than just a capitalist making money for myself.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Teacher, Capitalist

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• Making money has always been pretty easy for me, but today I don't need any more money. I still work, because money is important, but my work is more important than the money, now. And that's a very big difference. I just work because I enjoy my work.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Differences, Important, Needs

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• I know how to make money. That's what I know. Not too many people know that, that well.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Wells, Know How

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• I would not be well-known if I had just used my gift to make money for me. The moment I started to teach others - you teach people to fish - I think that's why my book Rich Dad, Poor Dad became an international bestseller, and things like this.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Book, Thinking

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