Making Money Quotes - Page 39

• Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

  Jon Anderson

  Rocks, Long, Band

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• I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.

  Axl Rose

  Running, Rocks, People

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

  Peter Senge

  Age, Machines, Company

  "Learning for a Change". Interview with Alan M. Webber, www.fastcompany.com. April 30, 1999.

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• Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it.

  Douglas Wilder

  Believe, Government, America

  "Douglas Wilder On Race, Politics And America". "This American Moment" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 15, 2008.

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• Henry Ford made a lot of money making cars at one time, but that was a small advantage to him compared to the benefit to millions of people who for the first time in their lives were emancipated from common public carriers and could live where they wanted, move at the hours they wanted, to the places they wanted. Ford collected a billion bucks, but that was peanuts compared to the benefits.

  George Stigler

  Money, Moving, Car

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• Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their work, I would have performed miracles of scholarship and become Regius Professor of Modern History.

  David Ogilvy

  Education, Men, Creation Of Man

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• Tech stocks were the cubic zirconium of the market. They looked good and were sexy, but they just were a way for the company selling them to make money. That's always going to be transient in terms of the stock market. What's real is that companies have to compete. Technology used well is a great tool to enable that if only because most companies dont use technologies well.

  Mark Cuban

  Sexy, Real, Technology

  "Online Extra: Mark Cuban: Watch Out for 'Ultrabroadband'". Interview with Peter Elstrom, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• The same applies to the music and film industries. Until the heads of the labels start wanting to make money rather than creating controversy, tension, and excuses about why piracy is making the job so hard that no one could do it but them - and oh by the way, they need a raise to really focus in on the fight - the music industry is going to have a very tough time of it.

  Mark Cuban

  Jobs, Fighting, Creating

  "Online Extra: Mark Cuban: Watch Out for 'Ultrabroadband'". Interview with Peter Elstrom, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• When a capitalist looks at the river, all they can think about is, "How can I pollute this river and destroy it and make money from it?"

  Ian Svenonius

  Thinking, Rivers, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

  Rick Springfield

  Successful, Musician, Matter

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• If I do need to make money suddenly, I prefer to just draw something I want to draw and have someone else sell it for me on the Internet.

  Chester Brown

  Needs, Want, Internet

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the side. Movies are supposed to make money.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Sides, Painting, Made

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Development, Incentives

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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

  Eddi Reader

  Art, Amanda, Miley

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• We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Fame, Motive, Craving

  Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Concrete”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Men, Differences

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• To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.

  June Squibb

  New York, Acting, Add

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• The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.

  Kevin Rose

  Angel, Keys, Investing

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• I don't think you can consistently be a winning trader if you're banking on being right more than 50 percent of the time. You have to figure out how to make money being right only 20 to 30 percent of the time.

  Bill Lipschutz

  Winning, Thinking, Banking

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• Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.

  Daphne Koller

  Ethos, People, Valleys

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

  Gregory David Roberts

  Stupid, Lazy, Crime

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

  Irving Paul Lazar

  Enjoy, Whole

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• I came into business to make money, I make no apology for that. I wanted to make a lot of money but after the first £50million or £100million, it became less about making money and more about having fun.

  Michael O'Leary

  Fun, Apology, Firsts

  "Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary on business, fortune and family". Interview with Graham Hiscott, www.mirror.co.uk. July 6, 2011.

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• I don't get the impression that most sources of media - like television and movies - are trying to get out a positive message, necessarily. My impression is they're trying to get a message out that promotes their personal opinion, position or belief and they're trying to do something that makes money. They want to turn a buck.

  Max Lucado

  Media, Personal Opinions, Trying

  "Pastor/Author Max Lucado talks about seeing his bestselling book 'The Christmas Candle' turned into a movie". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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