Tom Petty Quotes

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

I'd love to make more money in America, that's the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It's a shame. I'm trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I'll be much happier.

I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.

She was making great money at personal appearances.

You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.

We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.

If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.

There are three reasons to be in business. To make money, to have fun – and to make money.

Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.

Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.

I guess there are different ways to handle success. You can multiply it financially and use it to multiply your net worth. That's always been very appealing to me.

The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.

Money always flows to the leader... If you want more money, simply become more of a leader.

We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see.

I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.

I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I'm pretty happy with nerd values: Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world.

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

I bought properties inexpensively and made a lot of money. I began to think it was easy.

What's money interested in? More money.

Don't turn on monitization, typically, until it's going to be significant.

I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.

the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'.

If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.