Top 180 Making Money Quotes

Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists… people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it’s mostly about bottom line and making money.

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

How different would this country be if few were engaged in making money and many in making things.

At the end of the day, what makes Silicon Valley work is technology and the outcome of making money. Those two things have to be healthy. It has to matter a lot more than who is the celebrity and who is famous and who goes to the best parties.

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn’t have to worry about making money.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

I like the art of making money more than the money.

A company has a greater responsibility than making money for its stockholders. We have a responsibility to our employees to recognize their dignity as human beings.

What Wall Street is, they’re market makers. Wall Street’s business model is making money on velocity of money. They’re a click industry. That’s what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there’s a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn’t making money, but making an impact.

What I care about is making money. What I care about is making waves. What I care about is going down as one of, if not, the greatest professional wrestlers to have ever lived.

Just because you’re working does not mean you’re making money. That’s two very different things in show business.

I don’t think I’m misunderstood, but there is definitely a certain side of me that the press focuses on – my body, my hair, or who I’m dating – which has never really served me as an actor. It’s served me in the commercial world, making money as a model, but the media perception has really hindered my acting career.

There is more equity now in movies and TV, although I think its mostly because of changing demographics. It’s not a moral proposition. It’s good business. Shows about people of all colors are making money.

I can’t draw a stick person. I can’t play a musical instrument. But I’ve always had a knack for making money.

One of the things I have known my entire life is that I have an innate capability for making money.

The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you’re working with is also making money. That’s life!

I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.

When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.

There is no quick way of making money. People come to you with tips for the races or offer the latest Ponzi scheme, but I can see them coming a mile off. I just go with the adage that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.

I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.

It is saddening to see parents busy making money and their children losing out on a good life.

Most women are happier at home! They’re pretending that they like working, but they’re not making money because they don’t stay all night at the office. They don’t go the extra mile.

My parents are from north London, and so it’s not like I’m some Yank who wants to make a profit out of football. I don’t care about making money. I just want to see Spurs succeed and, if I can help, that’s great.

From the time I was very young, I was a professional, making money and assuming responsibilities. I didn’t live the life of a child. I was living the life of a 30-year-old.

I made a lot of money. It took a lot of time but when I started making money, it really sort of worked well. Things fell into place.

Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.

Floyd has done a lot for me financially and has taught me a lot about business. He did great in making money during his career and he tells me a lot of what he’s working on.

It would be foolish to say that betting does not happen. There is a list of 4-5,000 crore industry that happens on every match and it’s about time we legalize it and start taxing it, making money where we should.

Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making money is a good thing when it is made in service to humanity or the democracy.

The moment we put an end to speculation in land, we put an end to making money at the expense of our sons and daughters.

If someone makes a supernatural-themed show, and it becomes the best show, you are only making money and becoming famous. You are not learning anything from it. It’s pure entertainment, even if the content is regressive.

I want to maximize my potential. And when I talk about that, don’t get me wrong – I’m not talking about just making money.

Women need to be less squeamish about making money.

I invested in many companies, and I’m happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don’t like capitalism, you don’t like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

Not to say people shouldn’t get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

You’re either making money or you’re not. If you’re not making money get out of the business.

I’m free of stress and worries now because if I don’t like something I’m doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money – when I grew up so poor, ya know?

A lot of people who work on open-source software don’t mind making money elsewhere. They aren’t anticommercial.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China… and it becomes this shell game.

The captains of industry do not keep on working for the sake of making money, but for the love of completing a job successfully.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

But I was an utterly hopeless politician and I worked out that I would be much better suited to making money and running businesses than the compromise that is politics.

Making money is a happiness. And that’s a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

Nothing wrong with making money.

I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.

But I don’t need to use politics as a way of making money.

You have this idea that Hollywood is all about making money and is very impersonal. But ‘Love, Simon’ is such a passion project for director Greg Berlanti.

If you are in the world of business, that means you are in the business of making money.

For the past few years, I’ve been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that’s finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it’s only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.

There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won’t get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers.

The College Board is officially a non-profit. But all that means is that it doesn’t have shareholders and that their financial accountings must be available to the public; it certainly doesn’t mean that they’re not also into making money.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.