“The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money – then make money with money – then make lots of money with lots of money” — Paul Erdman
“I’d rather lose money havin’ fun than make money being bored” — Matthew McConaughey
“I realised I could do it and make money. It made me bloody determined I was never going to go crawling for money again” — Cynthia Payne
“Why make a movie if you don’t have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you doing it because you want to make a lot of money?” — Jake Gyllenhaal
“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money” — Peter Joseph
“Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money” — Robin Williams
“I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons – to make money, to be in the company of my friends – and also to hook up with young girls. I always knew, even before I played in piano bars, about the effect of my voice” — Andrea Bocelli
“In my opinion, I’m not going to make any money. I don’t want to make money. I don’t care about making money … It’s not about me, it’s about getting the right location” — Donald Trump
“My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money” — Susan Hayward
“The blind pursuit of profit at all costs is untenable. It is essential that we make money the right way. After all, if communities suffer as a result of a company’s actions, those returns are not sustainable” — Indra K. Nooyi
“It’s showbiz and people want to make money. And generally people are financing things because they think it will make money whether it’s a cable news show, a cable show, or a feature film, or whatever it is. So that’s the part of it that drives it, I think, is really the dollar” — Annette Bening
“I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on ‘making money’… If that’s all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly ‘make money.’ Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we’ll change the world for the best” — Philippe Kahn
“I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions” — Thomas Edison
“People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us” — Trevor D. Richardson
“Lots of people know how to make money, but are not gifted in the art of preserving it. Frequently the same risk that was involved in making you rich is the same risk that can make you poor again” — Fred J. Young
“What happens to business when you stop playing with Monopoly money? You will discover that money is unlimited because money is created by transactions, cooperation is more profitable than cutthroat competition, and you can make money while serving the best interests of other people” — Kalinda Rose Stevenson
“Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status” — Northrop Frye
“And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. And if you have money, or you don’t have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?” — Henry Miller
“I have ways of making money that you know nothing of” — John D. Rockefeller
“The decalogue has been reduced to two commandments. One for the employers – the elect, the money priesthood as it were – ‘Thou shalt make money’; the other for the employed – the slaves and underlings’ – ‘Thou shalt not lose thy job.'” — George Orwell
“My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving. I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can’t figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don’t deserve to be an owner” — Michael Symon
“Just because you can make money doing something doesn’t mean it is good for the society” — Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer
“Wells Fargo … you can’t take away Wells’ customer base. It grows quarter by quarter. And what you make money off of is customers. And you make money on customers by having a helluva spread on assets and not doing anything really dumb. And that’s what they do” — Warren Buffett
“Yes the truth is that men’s ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice” — Aristotle
“The problem for these guys is that I fully understand the system, and I understand how they make their money, And that’s what they don’t like about me”– Elizabeth Warren
“Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity” — Carl Icahn
“I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia” — Jarod Kintz
“Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money” — Tony Hsieh
“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life” — Henry Ford
“Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it’s keeping it. Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do” — John McAfee
“The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life” — Charles M Schwab
“Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health” — James J. Lachard
“Never go into business purely to make money. If that’s the motive you’re better off doing nothing” — Richard Branson
“Make the money, don’t let the money make you” — Macklemore
“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed” — George Burns
“Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don’t” — Tony Bennett
“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” — Andrew Young
“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame” — Alice Walker
“He who works all day has no time to make money” — John D. Rockefeller
“I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake” — John D. Rockefeller
“If you make money you are always ensured work. It’s a capitalist society baby” — Bret Easton Ellis
“I makes money, money don’t make me, that’s the way I am and it’s plain to see, Get right for yourself, they can’t put you on a shelf, Live and let live, you know its plain enough, There ain’t a dollar in the world can make me change my stuff” — Jerry Jeff Walker
“I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don’t want, to buy things they don’t need, to impress people they dislike” — Emile Henry Gauvreau
“If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you’re going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money” — Russell Simmons
“Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business” — Muhammad Yunus
“If your income on films or whatever you’re producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don’t have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don’t make money, you don’t make anything” — Morgan Freeman
“How Superheroes Make Money:
– Spider-Man knits sweaters
– Superman screw the lids on pickle jars
– Iron Man, as you would suspect, just irons”
— Jim Benton
“In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money” — Michael Jordan
“Most of Hollywood is about making money – and I love money, but I don’t make the films thinking about money ” — David Lynch
“I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money” — Lord Acton
“God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God – to be developed & used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money & still more money & to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience” — John D. Rockefeller
“Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money” — Horace
“Do not work to make money for money’s sake” — Buddha
“I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it” — Orson Welles
“I don’t mind rude people. I want people that I can make money with, so if their executional abilities are good, and they’re arrogant and rude, I don’t care” — Kevin O’Leary
“Apple’s goal is not to make money, but to make good products, We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn’t to make money. It sounds a little flippant, but it’s the truth. Our goal and what makes us excited is to make great products. If we are successful people will like them and if we are operationally competent, we will make money” — Jonathan Ive
“We’re trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth” — J. B. Pritzker
“The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money” — A. J. Liebling
“Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would… make money” — Robert Redford