Best 259 quotes in «making money quotes» category

It comes back to what Chief Jay Strongbow told us years ago, 'In this business you can make friends or you can make money'. And I remember lookin at Kev and X-Pac and going, I already got some friends, I'd like the money.

It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the side. Movies are supposed to make money.

It isn't me making money as much as it is me spending my money in a way that I feel is effective. My methodology is to say I'm not just going to throw money at a problem but rather personally invest myself in it.

I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money.

It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.

It's never been about making money.

It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.

It's OK, by the way, that it takes 10 years for you to make "money." Since when was it that being in your mid-30s to make a few hundred thousand dollars or a million dollars was like egregiously unfair? I think we have to have a sense of perspective here. We're all going to live into our 80s or 90s. So what is everybody in such a rush for?

It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

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

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30s film or a movie of David's Lynch or some other director I love that could also make money, because that would say to the corporation, "Yes, you can make money and still do art." But it's tricky.

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

I was just shitty, shitty, shitty with money and I finally, when I really started making money, I had to get somebody to sit down with me and learn how to manage my money.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

Make money. Make more money. Make others produce so as to make money... However you get them in or why, just do it.

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

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

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

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

I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left.

I've never been good at the money thing. I have had a couple of really nice but inept managers, and a business accountant that ripped me off. But I cannot totally blame my money making lameness on them.

I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money.

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore.

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.

Making money and making the world a better place are not contrary to one another.

Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

Making money isn't something to be ashamed of. There's a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it by some kind of shady dealing or being an MP.

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Making money isn't a bad thing at all - it allows for a lot more freedom.

Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.

Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.

Money should never change one’s values…. Making money is only a report card. It’s a way to tell how you’re doing.

Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money.

My parents didn't want us on the streets or in trouble, so they thought the best thing was to have us work. I saw how we had to, during bad times, stretch the dollar. And during good times, we couldn't spend it, because you never knew when the bad times were going to happen again. It gave me a great respect for how hard it is to make money.

My task is how I can learn to make money from that by giving first. I'm always constantly looking at how I can do more and more for less and less.