Making Money Quotes - Page 23

• To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Kids, Engineering

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• I set up this magazine called Student when I was 16, and I didn't do it to make money - I did it because I wanted to edit a magazine. There wasn't a national magazine run by students, for students. I didn't like the way I was being taught at school. I didn't like what was going on in the world, and I wanted to put it right.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Business, School

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• I’m not producing movies to make money

  Ranbir Kapoor

  Producing Movies

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• I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

  Mark Helprin

  Book, Ideas, Selling

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• I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

  Peter Zumthor

  Passion, Thinking, Creating

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• I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.

  Gregory Maguire

  Thinking, Stories, Care

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• My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.

  Jerome Kerviel

  Track, Scandal, Kind

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• I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.

  Jane Siberry

  Creativity, Cutting, Thinking

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• But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Beautiful, Dream, War

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• There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.

  Peter Cundill

  Art, Loss, Years

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• People who say it takes money to make money are using the worst excuse ever. . . Create massive value for others by providing a solution where no other exists.

  Matt Mickiewicz

  People, Excuse, Worst

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• I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Play, Long

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• Once you define exactly what your purpose is you won’t even have to try to figure out how to make money. The ideas will flow freely as if someone was whispering in your ear. Everything will come together beautifully.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Ideas, Trying

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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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• The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it’s the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There’s a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?

  Charlie Munger

  Fun, Pain, Stupid

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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