Linus Torvalds Quotes

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

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.

I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do - outside of sticking my tongue out - I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.

It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

I don't care about awards. I want to make money. I want to own a business.

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

Necessity, n. The mother of invention. Profit is the father.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration.

Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.

Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean 'make money' you need to be part of the machine unless you're one of those superhuman people who can do everything by yourself, and have workaholic tendencies and really good advisers and a good investor.

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

I never went into business to make money, but I have found that if I have fun, the money will come.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.

Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.