Quotes on Making Money

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask myself, is my work fun and does it make me happy? I believe that the answer to that is more important than fame or fortune. If it stops being fun, I ask why? If I can't fix it, I stop doing it.

Our business is not based on having information about you. You’re not our product. Our product are these, and this watch, and Macs and so forth. And so we run a very different company. I think everyone has to ask, how do companies make their money? Follow the money. And if they’re making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. Usually things like this are done by white people to benefit themselves. The white man's primary interest is not to elevate the thinking of black people, or to waken black people, or white people either. The white man is interested in the black man only to the extent that the black man is of use to him. The white man's interest is to make money, to exploit.

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.

Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you're trying to do more than just make money.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

Try to save something while your salary is small; it's impossible to save after you begin to earn more.

My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?