Making Money Quotes - Page 31

• When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Development, Incentives

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

  Eddi Reader

  Art, Amanda, Miley

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• We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Fame, Motive, Craving

  Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Concrete”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Men, Differences

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• To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.

  June Squibb

  New York, Acting, Add

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• The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.

  Kevin Rose

  Angel, Keys, Investing

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• I don't think you can consistently be a winning trader if you're banking on being right more than 50 percent of the time. You have to figure out how to make money being right only 20 to 30 percent of the time.

  Bill Lipschutz

  Winning, Thinking, Banking

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• Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.

  Daphne Koller

  Ethos, People, Valleys

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• Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Stupid, Lazy, Crime

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• The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.

  Irving Paul Lazar

  Enjoy, Whole

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• I came into business to make money, I make no apology for that. I wanted to make a lot of money but after the first £50million or £100million, it became less about making money and more about having fun.

  Michael O'Leary

  Fun, Apology, Firsts

  "Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary on business, fortune and family". Interview with Graham Hiscott, www.mirror.co.uk. July 6, 2011.

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• I don't get the impression that most sources of media - like television and movies - are trying to get out a positive message, necessarily. My impression is they're trying to get a message out that promotes their personal opinion, position or belief and they're trying to do something that makes money. They want to turn a buck.

  Max Lucado

  Media, Personal Opinions, Trying

  "Pastor/Author Max Lucado talks about seeing his bestselling book 'The Christmas Candle' turned into a movie". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety;but as for the beauty of one of these "model farms," I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.158

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• Anyone who says network news cannot be profitable doesn't know what he is talking about. But anyone who says it must "always," make money is misguided and irresponsible.

  Dan Rather

  Talking, News, Misguided

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• Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

  Herman Melville

  Money, Animal, Men

  Herman Melville (2012). “Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.446, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation depends on.

  Raymond Chandler

  Sex, Hate, Mean

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.216, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.

  Anna Quindlen

  Art, Sex, Home

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• Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.

  William Saroyan

  Cancer, Believe, Cutting

  William Saroyan (1968). “I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure”

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• In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has hadless authority than the last. . . . Masculinity ceased to be defined in terms of domestic involvement, skills at fathering and husbanding, but began to be defined in terms of making money. Men had to leave home to work. They stopped doing all the things they used to do.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Home, Past

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• The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

  Waylon Jennings

  Song, Art, Writing

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• Making money is pretty pointless and it needs constant attention.

  Adam Faith

  Money, Needs, Attention

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• You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.

  Christina Stead

  Success, Country, Ambition

  Christina Stead (2012). “I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Senior, Humble, Answers

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Thinking, Important, Knows

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• After the first one [Twilight], people started referring to it as a franchise, but a franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It's not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. They love it when something becomes a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it's scary.

  Robert Pattinson

  Kings, Twilight, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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