Steve Harvey Quotes

I've been in a situation where I was after the money.

In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.

That's where the money is, on the road.

I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.

I didn't write Feliz Navidad to make a lot of money for me.

Money has never been a motivation.

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

I make movies for money, exclusively for money.

Every time you choose a perfume, you are voting. And, of course, I hope you vote for me. Not only for my ego, but for my pocketbook. The more you buy, the more money I make.

Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.

I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent. Forget about it.

A person is born with a liking for profit.

Everybody's over here to make money for themselves.

Certainly after '21' I was getting the opportunity to make a lot of money.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.

I wasn't concerned with the money stuff; I only wanted to play football.

I think it is what you do with your wealth that is important. I don't believe in accumulating money for money's sake. It's one of the reasons I want to do more about helping women.

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.