Sergey Brin Quotes

I want to make money but not if it involves exploitation.

Nothing wrong with making money.

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things. It's about how you make that money, and then what you do with it.

I feel that doing business is just like practising Buddhism. Money is not your only purpose. Your purpose is to make things better for other people, and in the end, money will come as a result.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

What good are we doing them in China if we are just making money off them but they are still denied freedom.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Not everything is for sale; not everything is about money.

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle or a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven, than for a politician to lay aside disguise.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

The more men value money the less they value virtue.

These days to be great is to exceed on prosperity; greatness today has nothing to do with moral magnanimity.

It is impossible to deny that dishonest men often grow rich and famous, becoming powerful in their parish or in parliament. Their portraits grace shop windows; and they live and die respected. This success is theirs; yet it is not the success which a noble soul will envy.

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.