To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep.
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists.
If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a success. I don’t care if you’re writing textbooks or Pulitzer Prize-winning articles for weighty publications of world renown: If you’re writing and it’s paying the bills, consider yourself a successful writer.
In my business, you could be making money one day, and the next day you could be serving up burgers at McDonald’s. So if you want to be able to stay on top of your game, you’ve got to keep with it.
There is nothing wrong with making money, but that’s not particularly inspiring.
I’m not into fame. I’m not into making money, outside of financing my books. I’m not into status. My thing is basically about time – not wasting it.
When you are doing a site that you understand is not making money, you kind of understand when times get challenging or there is a new economic climate, you will be scrutinized very closely.
I don’t believe in spending money lavishly, now that I’m making money.
Most of Hollywood is about making money – and I love money, but I don’t make the films thinking about money.
At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community.
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.
Online business models are still evolving. New and different products and services pop up every day. This gives rise to supporting products and services. A business can make substantial profit by helping others execute their plans for making money.
I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn’t have family to fall back on if I didn’t work. I didn’t have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.
The opera always loses money. That’s as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
I love doing voiceover work. I started doing voiceover work when I had just dropped out of school, and the first few professional jobs I got were plays, but then I started making money doing voice-overs.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.
In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine – a machine for making money.
This country is conducive to making money. Once you learn this lesson and make your first deal, you will really appreciate the tools available to you in the United States, the tools that will help you ‘boot-strap’ yourself into a large income.
It’s never been about making money.
I always knew I’d go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.
There’s very little substitute in the business world for making money.
I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you’ll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the ‘Lost’ world.
When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.
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.
I am not interesting in making money. I go to the most expensive restaurant in Boston to have dinner. It is where billionaires come to eat. Even if I become richer, I will still have to go there to eat. After some time, money doesn’t make a difference.
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
The journey of making money in music has changed a great deal and is now based on merchandising and just being very smart in the business. Downloading from iTunes has become the way to purchase music and the price that you pay there for a song cannot compare to the days when people paid money for records.
It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.
Writing wasn’t about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that’s what’s driven me.
I grew up on the East Coast, and we always used to say, ‘Go get your hustle on,’ whether it was playing sports or making money. You do what you have to do to do what you want to do.
Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn’t have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
Who cares about how many albums you’ve sold when you have sold out arenas and you’re making money?
When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it’s often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
I have a saying: ‘I’m good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.’
I was thinking what happens if I break my leg today? What can I do to prevent me going back to the place of being poor? It led me to the world of venture capitalism. How are they making money? I decided I’m going to learn as much as I can.
I got some cash from agents. I’ve talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back.
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.
If you ask me what I should say to the girls who are making money, I think it’s as normal as a guy making money.
I’ve been buying real estate because it’s an asset I can control, that I could finance extremely cheaply if I chose to. I do not choose to; I buy my real estate in cash. I’m not interested in making money on it. I just want to keep my money safe.
From the outside, Yahoo was extremely successful. It was making money; it was still bigger than Google. But when I got there, I learned what a disaster of a company looks like from the inside. There were a lot of vice presidents, and it was basically a turf battle between them.
You know, I’ve always wanted this, to be playing music and making money and all. But, it is really weird.
Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things I liked. But I fell into the money thing. I now don’t feel guilty about it, but I am determined to give away the bulk of it and enjoy doing it.
I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.
There are a lot of people making money in NASCAR, so let’s help it be SAFER barriers where they should be – especially at these very very fast racetracks.
If something appeals, something appeals. I don’t think I’m particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it’s just about making money.
At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.
You cannot be seeking yourself when you’re making money.
I come from a family of craftsmen. We like to make things with our hands. Better than the pleasure of making money is the pleasure of making the product and saying, ‘Wow. I did that.’ I couldn’t see myself doing anything other than making good things to eat.
Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn’t feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
We weren’t making money in the Yardbirds.
Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren’t supposed to be in it for the money, and the more concerned a doctor seems to be about making money the more suspicious people become about the care being provided.
My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?
