Stan Lee Quotes

Many people start a business only to make money. Just to make money is not a strong enough mission.

For Trump, it's always about Trump and how he makes more money.

I'm an introspective guy when there's money in it.

The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.

The fans have to realize that as opinionated as y'all are in the way you want it, the company is the same way, and they're gonna do what they wanna do... at the end of the day, I'm just a guy getting rich.

I don't wanna work with people who only want to make money.

This is the western world; if somebody can make a buck, they're going to try to do it.

I know many businesspeople in Russia who have knowingly signed up to effectively compromise their values for their own profit motive to become part of this criminal apparatus in Russia.

There's money to be made, and I want mine.

Not everybody's actions are based on ideas. Some people's actions are based on profit.

You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.

I assumed a business like a film studio would behave like a business and still want to protect its own interests, still do the best it could to get as many people paying for as many of their movies as possible. I realized this is not actually a business about business: it's a business of egos and dominance.

Everything is always about people trying to make profit: Profits to this, profits to that, the more the merrier, and there's no end to it.

The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.

Audiences want to see them, and in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him), and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"--by which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it ? and am I going to come back alive?

My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits were the motivation.

People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.

He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are saying. You make money by doing what other people want, not what you want.

OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.

I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

I just want to get the most money I can.