One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, ‘Wait – you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?’ – Trent Reznor
In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that. – Theo de Raadt
I didn’t get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got into it to hit hearts, and man, when I get letters not just from the soldiers but from their kids, especially their kids, it makes it all worthwhile. – Tim O’Brien
You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you’re not supposed to say that. – Shuji Nakamura
If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy, in the same way that if you make a lot of money, you pay more in taxes than if you don’t make any money. – Tim O’Reilly
Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed. – Viggo Mortensen
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. – Voltaire
If you’re running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock. – Stanley Druckenmiller
That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you’re travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn’t last long. – Samantha Stosur
Advances don’t fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn’t really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I’m certainly not going to say no. But it hasn’t come my way as yet, and I’m not heartbroken. – Upamanyu Chatterjee
I’m always going to go up against movies with bigger muscle and money, so I need to have a strong grass-roots game. – Will Packer
Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells. – Thomas Frank
All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love. – Steve Harvey
What’s more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, ‘I don’t care about poor people,’ which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio. – Talib Kweli
If you don’t have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don’t overspend and rack up debt on a credit card. – T. Harv Eker
I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches. – Sergei Bubka
I just like to keep my money in the bank; I’m not a big risk-taker. I don’t know anything about the stock market… I stay away from things I don’t know anything about. – Wayne Gretzky
As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving. – Tom Jones
I think it’s the actor’s job – when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you’ve had success in – it’s up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts. – Ted Danson
We have to remember there is not a big printing press in Washington that continually prints money over and over. – Stephen Fincher
Now, I don’t mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it. – Victoria Jackson
I think money helps us. It helps us. It’s our – it’s our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn’t buy you health. – Victoria Osteen
When we buy somebody, we cut the head off. We keep the operators who are looking – I hate to use this term – they’re looking for a leader. We lead very well. And we immediately spend money on them and make them better. Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead. – Tilman J. Fertitta
We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel. – Yakov Smirnoff