Aristotle Quotes

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

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

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

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.

They speak of "This Dojo" and "That Dojo". They are looking for profit.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport.

They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated—unfairly so in my opinion. … there's nothing wrong with avarice as a motive as long as it doesn't lead to dishonest … conduct.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

I think everything is a motive for money. Every thought, every belief, everything we're taught in school.

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.

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.

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

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

The street kid in me says, "Grab the money and run - who cares who it's from! Don't think about whatever you have to do for it or when you have to do it!

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.