Brendan Behan Quotes

As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.

Of course, I do everything for money.

I do them all for the money, I really do.

My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that's it.

As a fighter, I recognise that the one thing we fight for is prizes. The one thing that motivates us is money. A lot of fighters do come back because of money. The biggest spur they have is financial, and thank God my finances were secure, and I didn't need to come back for that reason.

I got to the pinnacle of the sport for a reason and that's to make money. I didn't come here just to give handouts.

I'm not in the sport to make money, but that's a big plus.

Any fighter, at the end of the day, that says it's not about the money is ridiculous. We wouldn't be training this hard, putting our bodies on the line, and torturing our bodies if there wasn't a payday at the end of the day.

The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga.

If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it.

It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money.

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.

If you only do it for money, that's only what you get.

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.

It's hard to make a living as a novelist. My first novel 'Tapping the Source' made quite a splash in Hollywood, and people started asking if I wanted to write scripts. I quickly realized I could make a lot more money that way.

The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.

Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

I'm not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album.

I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.

If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable.