Barry Eisler Quotes

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

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

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.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

I'm not in business to make money.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

It can be a machine. The machine tries to make money and forget about the heart and the art. Hollywood is more about making money.

Never argue with a profit.

The industry is all about money. It has nothing to do with talent and calibre. The star system is a money game.

Nowadays, it's not more about the sport; it's about the business. All the boxers became businessmen, not boxers. They look just to get the money, not the glory.

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

If I would be in this business for business, I wouldn't be in this business.

Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

Profit per se is not my motive.