Making Money Quotes - Page 19

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Records, Forgotten

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• You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Two, Want, Make Sense

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.514, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

  Toi Derricotte

  Jobs, Successful, People

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• Apple stood for something and had a reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

  Jonathan Ive

  Apples, Reason

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• We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money. It sounds a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal and what makes us excited is to make great products. If we are successful people will like them and if we are operationally competent, we will make money.

  Jonathan Ive

  Successful, People, Goal

  "Jonathan Ive: Apple's goal isn't to make money". www.wired.co.uk. July 30, 2012.

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• So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Money, Business, Cash Flow

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.53, Routledge

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• We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

  Michael Eisner

  Art, Money, Business

  "Michael Eisner: Monster, inc". www.independent.co.uk. December 07, 2003.

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• A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Money, Kids, College

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• The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.

  Ben Silbermann

  People, Entrepreneur, Feelings

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• Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'

  Charlie Parker

  Guy, Comedian, Bops

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• Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Panic, Mutual Fund

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is
  mankind’s sole purpose on this planet. If you’re wondering
  what I believe our purpose on this planet is, I’ll give you
  a hint... it has to do with creating and sharing.

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Order, Creating

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• People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

  Jerry Gillies

  Mistake, Believe, Moving

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• For example, if I make money, I put it in real estate. I always did very well. Location, location, location.

  Ivana Trump

  Real, Example, Location

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• Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.

  Vanna Bonta

  Work, Pay

  "Shades of the World". Book by Vanna Bonta. Chapter: "Gratuitous", 1985.

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• If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.

  Sammy Hagar

  Reason, Fulfillment, Feels

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• Whatever it is that you're passionate about, whatever it is that you absolutely love, and whatever it is that you would get up out of bed every day and do for free, you should try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.

  Dana White

  Mma, Giving, Trying

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• Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.

  J. Paul Getty

  Mean, Men, Games

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• The US no longer does decisions. It can neither stop the drug traffic nor legalize it. It can neither win wars nor abandon them, neither make money nor stop spending it, neither stop immigration nor assimilate the immigrants. Washington can beat its thumb with a hammer, yes, and notice that it hurts, but it can't stop beating its thumb. That would take a decision, and Washington doesn't do decisions.

  Fred Reed

  Hurt, War, Winning

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• If conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.'

  Bill Maher

  Pain, Medicine, Vampire

  FaceBook post by Bill Maher from Jul 27, 2009

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

  Halle Berry

  Want, Today, Ifs

  "Halle Berry talks about fame, filming of 'Gothika'". Interview with Lana K. Silson-Combs, web.kitsapsun.com. November 21, 2003.

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• It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or have a living or have a family. So the fact that we keep doing [theatre] means we’re getting something from it that is almost childlike in its innocence.

  Santino Fontana

  Smart, Mean, Theatre

  "Lapine, Fontana, and Shalhoub Talk Moss Hart And ‘Act One’". Interview with Rob Weinert-Kendt, www.americantheatre.org. April 9, 2014.

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• You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses

  Bill Gates

  Excuse

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• And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, College, Hands

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy.

  J.D. Roth

  Want, Able, Wealth

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