Making Money Quotes - Page 9

• Some people start modeling because they want to be models and they want the parties and the recognition, and then there are people like me. I come from a simple family, and for me getting into modeling was a chance to make money and create a business.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Money, Party, Simple

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• In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn’t very good at it.

  Adam Carolla

  Nice, Dirty, Naughty

  Interview with Ariel Adams, www.askmen.com. November 3, 2010.

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• Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

  Benjamin Carson

  Organization, Corporations, Welfare

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• For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

  Jackie Chan

  Real, Income, Financial

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• It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, World, Facts

  "Clinton calls on elites to pay more tax in remarks seen as criticism of Romney" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2012.

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• My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So to make money in the summer we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.

  George Clooney

  Summer, Cutting, Kentucky

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

  John Cusack

  Office, Dollars, Figure Skating

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• The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.

  Vin Diesel

  Years, Skills, Firsts

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• I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life.

  Will Ferrell

  Way, Living My Life, I Live My Life

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• I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Running, Doors, Way

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• Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

  Al Franken

  Feet, Years, Guy

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.

  Northrop Frye

  Country, Moral, Social

  "The Northrop Frye Quote Book".

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• I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

  Lady Gaga

  Money, Differences, Making A Difference

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• I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

  Noel Gallagher

  Talent, Not Interested, Cursed

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• I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

  Bill Gates

  Confused, Mean, Giving

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• My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Sports, Fun, Father

  Interview with Jim White, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2002.

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• It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Kids, Car, Would Be

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• In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

  Lady Gregory

  Years, People, Advice

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe

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• It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?

  Larry Hagman

  Stars, Air, Grace

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• I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

  Patricia Heaton

  Fun, Talking, Rays

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• The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Sleep, Simple, Laziness

  "Live lazy, live long - look at Britain's oldest man" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2012.

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• Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

  Val Kilmer

  Creative, Challenges, Theater

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• I don't buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They're basically stealing someone's image in order to make money for themselves... They wait at the end of my street in their cars. Every time I exit my home, I have company.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Home, Order, Car

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• People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

  Jaron Lanier

  Heart, People, Brain

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• I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.

  Jaron Lanier

  News Stories, Class, Quirky

  "My bright idea: Jaron Lanier". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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