Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.

It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

I'm pretty busy in my life and I'm very aware of what it takes to direct a movie. It takes a lot out of you; it takes a lot out of the rest of your life, from other people in your life. I don't lie around hungering for that consumption very often.

And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.

I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.

To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

I just want to get the most money I can.

Sometimes the worst thing you can do, personally, is the best thing you can do, professionally.

Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.

All I care about is money and the city that I'm from.

If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand.

We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.