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• My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

  Joyce Maynard

  Jobs, Cancer, Writing

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• A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Money, Men, Views

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, 1989.

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• The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Money, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Climate is not responding to greenhouse gases in the way we thought it might. If increasing carbon dioxide is in fact increasing climate change, its impact is smaller than natural variation. People are being misled by people making money out of this.

  Chris de Freitas

  Impact, People, Climate

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• The last 10 to 20 years you’d think that it has been all about VCs making money, because that’s all we hear about. But really it is all about VCs failing and failing to return capital and being f**king idiots. VCs are stupid. They are absolutely stupid. Does anyone want to challenge that statement? Does anyone think that VCs are not stupid?

  Dave McClure

  Kings, Stupid, Thinking

  "Dave McClure is ripping VCs again: They’re f***ing arrogant and stupid a**holes" By John Cook, www.geekwire.com. August 22, 2012.

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• I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn,
  Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken.
  Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down,
  Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.

  Rakim

  Strong, Queens, Rap

  Song: Juice

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• Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Giving, Hip Hop

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• When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'

  Mitch Daniels

  Leader, Proud, Indiana

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.

  Darren Rowse

  Funny, Thoughtful, Eggs

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• They make money the old fashioned way... they earn it.

  John Houseman

  Way, Old Fashioned

  John Houseman (1986). “Unfinished business: a memoir”

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• I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.

  Willie Mays

  Black, Birmingham, Lots Of Money

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30s film or a movie of David's Lynch or some other director I love that could also make money, because that would say to the corporation, "Yes, you can make money and still do art." But it's tricky.

  Laura Dern

  Art, Style, Film

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• People will pay me to feel the passion and energy I breathe into my career and creations.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Passion, Careers

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• If you have good wealth mentality.... you will generate wealth wherever you go. Even if you lose money temporarily, your wealth mentality will attract it again. If you have a lack mentality, no matter how much you receive or what financial opportunities come your way, wealth will evade you or, if it comes, it won't last.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Opportunity, Matter

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• So money is not the answer to problems; wealth mentality is.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Answers, Problem

  Alan H. Cohen (2011). “How Good Can It Get?: What I Learned from the Richest Man in the World”, p.33, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

  Jonathan Ive

  Apples, Design, Alternatives

  "Apple Story of the Day: Arise, Sir Jony Ive". www.computerworld.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you're trying to do more than just make money.

  Tony Hsieh

  Fun, Inspiration, Games

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

  Vic Oliver

  Money, Hard Work, Ambition

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• We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine - technology - to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.

  William O. Douglas

  Mean, Technology, Men

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• Internet marketing entrepreneurs have truly opened my eyes to just how important a quick turnaround time can be. Often times, an interview they conduct with me today is online by the next morning. The interviewee is then able to start making money less than 24 hours after the initial interview.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Morning, Eye, Entrepreneur

  "David vs. Goliath: Internet Entrepreneurship vs. Corporate America" by Marc Ostrofsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do. Libertarians want you to make money and have fun.

  Andre Marrou

  Fun, Liberty, Want

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• For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise.

  Will Allison

  Wise, Mother, Daughter

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• Change your focus from making money to serving more people. Serving people makes the money come in.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Focus, Serving

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jan 19, 2012

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• You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

  Arthur Rock

  Money, People, Building

  Interview with Rob Walker, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.

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• Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.

  Lily Allen

  Artist, People, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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