Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such.
I like making money, but it’s a scorecard. I’m not driven by that.
When I started making money, I immediately began buying property and fixing it up. I was always searching for the next neighborhood. The first place I bought when I was 19. I found a huge loft on the Lower East Side, almost 3,500 square feet. I did it up, turned it over, and sold it.
The reality is that most companies are not about any values at all – they are about making money. It is extremely rare for a business to stand for anything because most businesses don’t want to alienate potential customers, and if you believe in anything you are going to alienate someone.
When you start out in the industry and things are tough, and you’re not really making money, you question yourself: should I give up?
At 19 I was lucky enough to start making money from my music career, and when I was in my early twenties I trusted financial experts and advisers to guide me with how I invested money.
My body can’t put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore – my body is just not on the table that way anymore.
Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn’t fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
I’m pretty well-spoken guy, but I don’t have a college education. Me making money in other avenues is not going to be as easy as walking into the Octagon.
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.
From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
The key to making money is to stay invested.
Diana, whatever her failings, was not into making money, or as Harry and Meghan put it, financial independence.
I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
I’m a prize fighter. Titles don’t pay bills. I fight for money. I’m making money. They’re making money. Everybody’s making money. That’s what this is all about.
Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don’t worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.
Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you’re writing something to pay the bills and when you’re writing something because it’s really your version of the world.
Making money is my third or fourth most favorite thing in the world.
I just don’t feel like composing music for films because I find there is too much pretense in the industry and creativity has been replaced by the sole thought of making money.
Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.
Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.
I worked in a boutique after work, my second job, selling women’s clothes. And that was a way of not just making money but meeting women. That was very exciting job. I loved that job.
What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.
I always thought that I would spend the first half of my life making money so I can spend the second half of my life giving it all away. And one of the defining moments of my life was when I realized that I could do both at the same time with TOMS.
I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid’s dream. I was told a pop singer’s life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.
With wrestling, I’m working all the time, I’m wrestling all the time, I’m performing all the time, and I’m making money all the time.
People say that making money in the content-media game is hard, and that is just, like, not my experience. It’s super-confusing, ’cause everyone’s like, ‘Oh, how are you going to monetize?’ It’s easy: just start talking, and then money rolls in.
Producers have stopped hiring Blacks just because of pressure. They see there’s a market out there. The name of the game is money, and we’re making money for them. That’s all.
Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it’s a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.
Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it’s all about making money. They know people want to see what they’ve seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow.
I’m very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I’m just living according to the standards of the world.
Your ideas and the things that you do are dumb and stupid and make no sense – until you start getting recognized and making money. Then you’re a genius.
I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community. I had some friends who had moved out to Chicago and had said really good things about it and about the work. I didn’t care at that time about making money.
I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it’s making money or not. I can just tell by the way it’s being run and by the spirit of the workers.
When you’re working and making money, that’s all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
But it’s a blessing to be so successful within a year; it’s the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I’m doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I’m doing.
Carried interest… you’re making money on somebody else’s capital. It’s not on your own. If that’s not income, I don’t know what is.
As a TV actor, I was making money and spending it and always felt a certain void in terms of work.
I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it’s the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That’s what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn’t think that this is about making money, then they’re crazy.
I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.
I didn’t put Priest down. He was just trying to get out. His deeds weren’t noble ones, but he was making money, and he had intelligence. And he did survive. I mean, all this was reality.
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they’re wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they’re making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.
With every story that TV covers, somebody – some corporation, some shareholders – are making money. That’s true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that’s sold, somebody’s making a dime.
Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don’t care about making money.
Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.
The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.
The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.
Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.
New Yorkers are obsessed with youth and eternal youth and then their careers and making money.
If I wasn’t touring, I wasn’t making money. When I got the MacArthur, I could get off that hamster wheel. It meant I didn’t have to do anything.
Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it’s keeping it.
Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it’s the ability to give.
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
I’ve told older friends to pick up the guitar because it’s a great way to express yourself. It’s not all about making money: it’s about creating art and working with other people. It’s a journey, and it’s a really fun thing to do.
