John Maynard Keynes Quotes

I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It's capitalism.

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

Even genius is tied to profit.

Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.

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.

A person is born with a liking for profit.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.

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

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

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

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

There's always more money to be made.

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

It is interest alone which does it, and it is interest alone which can be trusted.

For richest Jems and gainfull things most Merchants wisely venter; Deride not then New England men, this Corporation enter;

Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

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

Business is business. I don't manufacture cars, but we do manufacture money.

Every film is made for a commercial purpose - to earn money at the box-office.