Jonathan Swift Quotes

People will do odd things if you give them money.

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.

It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money.

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.

I've gotten out of bed a lot of days for a lot less than $10,000.

I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.

The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.

I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

To me it seemed in college ball, guys are more hungry. It's for a different circumstance when you're talking about playing for money and playing for heart. Not saying that guys in the NBA don't play for heart, but once you get that money, you're under a different mindset.

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

People act on what they want more often than what they need.

If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.

I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

Any time some politician tells you it's not about the money, it's about the money.

Listen! We're not just doing this for the money! We're doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!

Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen.

People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.