Making Money Quotations

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

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

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.

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.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore.

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.

Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things I liked. But I fell into the money thing. I now don't feel guilty about it, but I am determined to give away the bulk of it and enjoy doing it.

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.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

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

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

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

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

The role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money.

She was making great money at personal appearances.

Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

Not long ago, the term 'business model' was not exactly on the tip of everyone's tongue. Then, in the early to mid-1990s, 'business model' became a catchphrase that described how a company makes money or saves money.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.

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

I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

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

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

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

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!

I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.

There are hundreds of ways to make money using the Internet.

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.

For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

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

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make his life easier, preferably both. Also, you have to learn as much as you can about your chosen endeavor.

I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

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.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.

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

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

If you believe in what you're doing, you're going to make money. When you question it, you won't.

Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.

Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.

I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money.

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

Well, there's nothing I've done I'm not proud of. Making money was an interest, but it's never been my god.

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.

I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.

Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want the future more than the present. Whenever you want the future more than you want the present, true intelligence cannot flow into what you do, because it can do so only when you are totally aligned with the present moment.