Making Money Quotes

1. “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”

2. “Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.”

3. “To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.”

4. “I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.”

5. “Spending money is much more difficult than making money.”

6. “Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.”

7. “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.”

8. “I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.”

9. “The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.”

10. “Don't worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.”

11. “Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.”

12. “Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.”

13. “Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”

14. “Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.”

15. “The key to making money is to stay invested.”

16. “I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.”

17. “The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.”

18. “Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.”

19. “Business is about making money but it is also about having fun, so get your character across.”

20. “I cannot afford to waste my time making money.”

21. “I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.”

22. “I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.”

23. “Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.”

24. “I like the art of making money more than the money.”

25. “We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.”

26. “The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.”

27. “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.”

28. “Make sure to save for the future and keep making money!”

29. “Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.”

30. “The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.”

31. “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.”

32. “Making money from money is like aerobatics.”

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

34. “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.”

35. “HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.”

36. “Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.”

37. “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.”

38. “Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.”

39. “In all my experience - I had a very serious spinal injury - my entire career was only 11 years long, I can tell you that no one in Hollywood ever asked me for my political affiliation or my religious beliefs or anything like that. What they care about is making money.”

40. “Nothing wrong with making money.”

41. “Life started getting good when I started making money.”

42. “I love to pay taxes. I know when I'm paying taxes I'm making money.”

43. “The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.”

44. “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.”

45. “Of course making money and being able to live life the way one desires is important.”

46. “My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.”

47. “In the worst of our recession, bars were making money. Every bar can make money. If they're failing, it's not because of the president or Congress or Ukraine. It's because of them. And if you own failure, then you'll own success.”

48. “All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.”

49. “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.”

50. “I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.”

51. “I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.”

52. “In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.”

53. “Mayweather was TBE - The Best Ever - at making money, but look at his highlights and look at mine. You can't pretend it's the same.”

54. “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?”

55. “Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.”

56. “In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.”

57. “Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.”

58. “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.”

59. “Women need to be less squeamish about making money.”

60. “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.”

61. “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.”

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

63. “As a TV actor, I was making money and spending it and always felt a certain void in terms of work.”

64. “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.”

65. “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!”

66. “It's never been about making money.”

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

68. “The monied interests are doing what they do best - making money. The rest of us need to do what we can do best - use our voices, our vigor, and our votes.”

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

70. “You know, it's funny… when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.”

71. “I don't spend my life making money to spend tomorrow, or to acquire possessions.”

72. “If people love you, if you're making money, if the performances you have are unlike anything anyone has ever seen, you get put in a position to be the man.”

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

74. “I lose around a couple of crores every year on the school, but even if I was to make profit from it, I would never use it for myself. I'd plough every penny back into improving facilities for the school. Just as I do with the cricket academies I run around the country. These are not for making money; for that, I have other avenues.”

75. “The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.”

76. “The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.”

77. “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.”

78. “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.”

79. “Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.”

80. “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.”

81. “The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.”

82. “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.”

83. “We are now after 7 months operation making money here.”

84. “But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.”

85. “Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.”

86. “A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.”

87. “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.”

88. “The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.”

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

90. “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.”

91. “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.”

92. “Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.”

93. “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.”

94. “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.”

95. “I'm not really interested in making money.”

96. “Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.”

97. “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.”

98. “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.”

99. “What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.”

100. “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.”

101. “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.”

102. “The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.”

103. “It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.”

104. “I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.”

105. “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.”

106. “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.”

107. “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.”

108. “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?”

109. “Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.”

110. “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.”

111. “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.”

112. “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.”

113. “You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.”

114. “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.”

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

116. “Human beings are much bigger than just making money.”

117. “It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.”

118. “I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.”

119. “My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.”

120. “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.”

121. “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.”

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

123. “Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.”

124. “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.”

125. “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.”

126. “The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.”

127. “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.”

128. “Internet marketing entrepreneurs have truly opened my eyes to just how important a quick turnaround time can be. Often times, an interview they conduct with me today is online by the next morning. The interviewee is then able to start making money less than 24 hours after the initial interview.”

129. “For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise.”

130. “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.”

131. “In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted undergraduates who might otherwise have been scientists, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists or inventors.”

132. “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.”

133. “I have a saying: 'I'm good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.'”

134. “I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.”

135. “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.”

136. “Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.”

137. “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.”

138. “Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.”

139. “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.”

140. “The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.”

141. “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.”

142. “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.”

143. “My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.”

144. “Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.”

145. “Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.”

146. “I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.”

147. “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.”

148. “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.”

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

150. “Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.”

151. “Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.”

152. “Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.”

153. “You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.”

154. “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.”

155. “You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.”

156. “If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.”

157. “The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it.”

158. “Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money.”

159. “I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.”

160. “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.”

161. “When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.”

162. “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.”

163. “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.”

164. “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.”

165. “I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.”

166. “A part of me was like, 'Man, do I even like doing this anymore?' That whole thing of 'I'm in my 30s, and I sing and write songs while people are fighting wars in Iraq.' You know? So everything had to have more meaning, and it couldn't just be about making money. So, I took a minute.”

167. “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.”

168. “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.”

169. “I think Yandex is something in between two different cultures. One originated from the old Soviet culture of the scientific institute. It was a free atmosphere of scientists, maybe too free because nobody cared about making money. Another origin is something close to what you usually see in California startups.”

170. “I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.”

171. “Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.”

172. “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.”

173. “There is nothing wrong with making money, but it was just not in my family's habits to know how to do that. All we knew how to do was work, and we usually liked the work we did.”

174. “I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.”

175. “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.”

176. “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.”

177. “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.”

178. “I'm making music that I love and I want to hear. At the same time, things like making money, making crazy money - you gotta find ways to reach to everybody but uplift everybody.”

179. “I just want choices. It's not about making money and having a lot of friends in Hollywood; that's the last thing I want.”

180. “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. I had done network sitcoms. I had a nest egg.”

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

182. “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.”

183. “It would be really great if someone would invent a new Internet with the specific purpose of not making money off of it, but making it what it originally was, a free marketplace of ideas, and there are still aspects of the Internet that are that. Wikipedia, essentially, is still the bastion of the original ideals of the Internet.”

184. “Succeeding in business is not just about making money.”

185. “My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the books took off, and the beans started coming in!”

186. “It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.”

187. “The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. Fashion pays.”

188. “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.”

189. “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.”

190. “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.”

191. “There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring.”

192. “I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.”

193. “One of the biggest lessons I've learned is that there has got to be a reason for what you're doing. You actually have to care about what you're doing. The business has to be about something. Whatever the point of it is does not have to be inconsistent with making money, but usually if that's the sole reason, it is not very successful.”

194. “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.”

195. “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.”

196. “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.”

197. “At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.”

198. “I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.”

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

200. “Every minute you spend looking through clutter, wondering where you put this or that, being unable to focus because you're not organized costs you: time you could have spent with family or friends, time you could have been productive around the house, time you could have been making money.”

201. “As a developer, it's a great feeling knowing you have made an impact. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes with that: you have to really put the city's needs first. It's not all about making money.”

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

203. “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.”

204. “There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.”

205. “As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.”

206. “We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.”

207. “My mother was asked to be a model when she was younger, but my father had not let her, so she was quite keen on me becoming a model. I just went off without telling my dad. I took off to Paris and never came back, but when I became a success and started making money, he was very proud of me.”

208. “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.”

209. “That just doesn't make sense, that government should be making money off students.”

210. “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.”

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

212. “People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, and giving yourself far more trouble and anxiety to gain it than you can ever get pleasure from it when it's gained, why, as for me, I'd rather sit still and cross my arms.”

213. “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.”

214. “When I reached America, there was so much space and colour. The possibilities seemed endless. At least that's how I felt at 18. But of course, I didn't have to take the usual immigrant route of battling to find a job and a home in a strange country. I could play tennis. I spoke the language, and I was making money. It was easy, really.”

215. “You have to figure out some way of making money without relying on video ads or people paying to download.”

216. “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.”

217. “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.”

218. “We weren't making money in the Yardbirds.”

219. “With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.”

220. “I have refused money sometimes for a film. I have refused films when I felt that it was not for me. When it was just a job or just about making money, I said no. I wanted to make every film count, and when you are true to yourself, this gives you a certain integrity and a certain reputation.”

221. “I like making money, but it's a scorecard. I'm not driven by that.”

222. “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.”

223. “If you're making money, and you've hit your targets for five years, you don't need to demand a new contract.”

224. “It was in Delhi when I started doing jingles and making money through music.”

225. “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.”

226. “How many superhero movies can we have? It seems like there are 19 a week. They're making money, though, and people are going to see them. So, I get it. I understand completely.”

227. “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.”

228. “New Yorkers are obsessed with youth and eternal youth and then their careers and making money.”

229. “Remember, if your business isn't making money, then you and your employees aren't, either.”

230. “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.”

231. “When I first entered the corporate world, doing good and making money were seen as separate and contradictory threads. Challenging that notion set my career - and life - on a new course.”

232. “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.”

233. “IPL is good for limelight and making money.”

234. “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.”

235. “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.”

236. “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.”

237. “A lot of times, they can't hire actors just because there's this obligation that the audiences don't know who they are, and it's about making money. For me, the project that felt like all of it was 'Rachel Getting Married' because I had such a good time on that movie. Jonathan Demme, to me, is one of the most actor-friendly directors.”

238. “As an actor, you're not a person; you're a product, a commodity. It's about money. Your job is about making money for other people. At some point, you learn how to be on the other side of that table. You write, direct, produce, and create opportunity for yourself. Then you start to make money for yourself.”

239. “Yes, green business is good business. But it's not just about making money. It's about being responsible.”

240. “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.”

241. “It's about more than making money; it's about connecting people in countries all around the world. Our social mission is to get people meeting each other, and we need people who align with that purpose.”

242. “I didn't necessarily hit rock bottom, but I was working at Sprinkles Cupcakes and trying to make money, not wanting to tell anybody that I was getting a job because other people that I knew from 'Idol' were like, 'Why aren't you singing places and making money off of the Idol name?' And I was like, 'Because I don't only want to be known for that.'”

243. “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?”

244. “My mom struggled for a long time growing up poor, and then we were on welfare when I was a kid. So to see her kids, not just me, be successful and making money and happy and healthy and in good relationships - it means so much to her after all that she's been through.”

245. “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.”

246. “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.”

247. “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.”

248. “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.”

249. “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.”

250. “When someone else is making money off of you and using your body, you need to step off the carousel.”

251. “It can be a machine. The machine tries to make money and forget about the heart and the art. Hollywood is more about making money.”

252. “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.”

253. “I was kind of burned out, a little jaded, and just sort of disillusioned by all the 'Mighty Duck' movies and everything just being about making money and not really caring about scripts anymore.”

254. “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.”

255. “The purpose of VEVO is to continue the tradition of corporations preventing artists from making money on their art.”

256. “When I moved to New York, I was dead broke and lost my mind, and my girlfriend dumped me and was with some banker making money. I wandered by Jane Curtin's house, and she's like, 'Come in here, dear. I'll make you lunch. Tell me, what's going on in your life?'”

257. “The environment on the sets of the movies I make, it's usually all friends and people that know each other, because no one's getting rich or making money, so it's always about, hopefully, that everyone's on the same page.”

258. “I'm always asked how my husband is feeling about my success with a note of concern. He feels great. It's not hard to feel good about your spouse making money.”

259. “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.”

260. “In a way, I felt like I arrived before I was making money at it, because I'd established that I just wanted to act.”

261. “Hollywood is Hollywood. It'll never change, although it does go through its own transformations. I think that there's this obsessiveness with making money, which has gotten out of proportion.”

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

263. “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.”

264. “Making money is my third or fourth most favorite thing in the world.”

265. “From the age of seven, I knew I wanted to play football - I didn't think about it in a professional sense in terms of making money from it; it was more about the social aspect of being with my friends and losing myself in the sport.”

266. “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.”

267. “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.”

268. “I see myself as a bit of a capitalist really - I like enterprise and making money.”

269. “There is a huge stigma around people who are online making money online.”

270. “I have the best possible life because I believe in the mission I'm making, and I'm making money out of something I enjoy, and I travel.”

271. “You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.”

272. “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.”

273. “When we first started we felt something changing in terms of work, and we felt it was a global shift. People were taking control of their future, not just in terms of making money. They wanted to control their own destiny.”

274. “I wasn't happy the way I completed 'Asuran' or abandoned the film as it isn't complete. People are liking it and it's making money and I'm glad but I'm not happy with how I had to finish it.”

275. “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.”

276. “When western culture developed, we became detached from nature, detached from our relationship with the animals. We saw animals perhaps as only the rhino horn, the elephant's tusk, we saw it as making money.”

277. “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.”

278. “Who cares about how many albums you've sold when you have sold out arenas and you're making money?”

279. “'Housewives' has shone a light on women of middle age, that you're not out of the game, you're not old, you're not put out to pasture… You're lively, you're doing things, you're aggressive, you're making money, you're recreating yourself.”

280. “I had always in the past thought The Ultimate Warrior was the epitome of a guy making money with no talent.”

281. “I never made this film with the motive of making money. I wanted to make a different film, which would strike a chord with the audience. I'm extremely happy that 'Mithunam' succeeded in what it wanted to achieve.”

282. “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.”

283. “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.”

284. “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.”

285. “Diana, whatever her failings, was not into making money, or as Harry and Meghan put it, financial independence.”

286. “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.”

287. “You know, I've always wanted this, to be playing music and making money and all. But, it is really weird.”

288. “Some people don't have to be on the screen all day and they could be making interest on so many different things and making money. I look at people like that. Those are the kind of entrepreneurs I look at.”

289. “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.”

290. “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.”

291. “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.”

292. “I'm loving life, making money doing what I love to do, making good money and living comfortably. I drive a corvette and live in L.A., baby!”

293. “I did have a very determined idea of making money. I was quite savvy about that. And that was my most basic lesson. You do have to understand the economics. It's pointless putting in all that work and losing money. If you're not making a profit you're stuffed.”

294. “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.”

295. “Those who fixate only on making money or winning elections will find it an unhappy existence much of the time.”

296. “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.”

297. “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.”

298. “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.”

299. “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.”

300. “As a kid, I heard elders in my family say in passing that Jewish people were consumed with making money, and that they 'owned everything.' My relatives never dwelled on the subject, and nothing about their tone indicated that they thought anything they were saying was anti-Semitic - not that a lack of awareness would be any excuse.”

301. “I'm trying to think about my future and be smart in the way I'm using my money and saving my money and making money outside of skateboarding.”

302. “Why would you be a sell-out for making money out of what you can do?”

303. “When people would ask me what do you do, I'd say I make music for cartoons. I could see the compassion in their eyes. I gotta tell you, there was no room for compassion: I was making money hand over fists.”

304. “I was 10 years old making money that an adult would, you know?”

305. “If you play good, you're going to end up making money and be able to take care of yourself. It's not why I started playing, it's not the reason why I play.”

306. “I'm retired from mixed martial arts but I'm not retired from making money.”

307. “I'll just keep making money, and eventually the belt will come to me.”

308. “People like me because they're like, 'Oh, that's my white trash uncle that I used to hang out with. I know that guy, look he's famous, he's making money.'”

309. “I don't want to fight anybody boring. I want to fight, you know, give me someone who's making money.”

310. “Making money isn't the goal; being famous isn't the goal. Being great is the goal - in everything I do.”