Making Money Quotes - Page 36

• Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies.

  Richard Branson

  Fighting, Incentives, Want

  The Sunday Mirror Interview, January 16, 2000.

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• At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services, but we make money from advertising, we can make information free and still have capitalism. But the problem with that is it reneges on the social contract where people still participate in the formal economy. And it's a kind of capitalism that's totally self-defeating because it's so narrow. It's a winner-take-all capitalism that's not sustaining.

  Jaron Lanier

  Self, People, Giving

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• To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.

  Ihara Saikaku

  Thinking, Matter, Way

  Saikaku Ihara (1955). “Nippon Eitaigura: The Way to Wealth”

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• I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money"... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.

  Philippe Kahn

  Should Have, People, Focus

  Commencement speech for University of California Santa Cruz students, 1996.

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• There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.

  Jack McDevitt

  Teacher, Numbers, Nurse

  Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• I know how to make money and I'll make it.

  Dottie West

  Know How, Knows

  From an interview with the "Tennesseean" newspaper reporter Robert K. Oermann, 1991.

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• It's not difficult to make money - it's different.

  Marshall Sylver

  Different, Difficult

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• I love makin' music, so whether I'ma make money at it or not, I'ma still do it. The thing is, I've gotten to a point where I don't have to use music to make a livin', so I can do it for fun like I used to when I was young.

  Ice Cube

  Fun, Use, Young

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 16, 2008.

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• Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful.

  Earl Nightingale

  Believe, Successful, Law

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• Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Art, Mean

  Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.216, Collector's Library

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• What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now.

  Jim Cramer

  Years, Today, Able

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• The way our world is set up, a higher economic priority is given to things that bespeak a greater refinement. It is just a determination that was made, to make money.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Determination, Buddhism

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• I encourage you to make money and to become enlightened. The two are not necessarily different. Have fun with whatever you do because we are only here for a while.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Fun, Buddhism

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• I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Stupid, Book, Mean

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• Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.

  Paul Hawken

  Business, Way, Who You Are

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have to become a filmmaker, find a story that takes you away, and tell that story. Don't think about whether it's going to sell, or whether it's going to make money, or whether it's going to appeal to distributors. Do something from the heart that really matters, and then you'll do something good.

  Anne Makepeace

  Heart, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It isn't me making money as much as it is me spending my money in a way that I feel is effective. My methodology is to say I'm not just going to throw money at a problem but rather personally invest myself in it.

  Immortal Technique

  Way, Problem, Methodology

  "The Transcendence Of Hip Hop - An Interview With Immortal Technique". Interview with Chris Grosso, theindiespiritualist.com. February 20, 2014.

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• I am at a stage in my life where I want to only do thing that I love. I only want to do things that make me happy. Making money is important, but it's not my ultimate driver.

  Monita Rajpal

  Important, Want, Stage

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

  Lee Iacocca

  Country, Kids, Littles

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• If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.

  Henry Mancini

  Band, Want, Uniforms

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• Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money.
  [Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]

  Horace

  Money, Mean, Honest

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• Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Gentleman, Prosperity, Whole

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• Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, it is to be all but dead.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Life, Stars, Kindness

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Thinking, Wish, Deals

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• Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Hands, Snow

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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