Michael Ian Black Quotes

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

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

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?

Anything you get involved with, you are supposed to make money.

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

You don't do a business for pleasure: You have to make money.

I endorsed supplements for about 15-20 years and made a lot of people a lot of money, so I figured I should do my own line and make my own money.

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

I've seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.

If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.

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.

I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more money and it doesn’t take any more time to write a bestseller than it does to write a book nobody buys.

You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money!

A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

I don't get the impression that most sources of media - like television and movies - are trying to get out a positive message, necessarily. My impression is they're trying to get a message out that promotes their personal opinion, position or belief and they're trying to do something that makes money. They want to turn a buck.

I'm a soul maker. I write songs. I'm making cartoon shows. I'm planning on putting stuff out myself on my own, on a TV station online. I'm not limiting myself. I'm doing it all at once.

Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.

Many people start a business only to make money. Just to make money is not a strong enough mission.

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

I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that's where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing.