Monetary Drive Quotes

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

I had a terrible time hiring rich people. It sounds funny, but the problem is when things go wrong they can ask, 'Why am I doing this?' You don't ever want anybody asking that question. You want them to say, 'I know why I'm doing it, I need the money, let's go' or whatever it is that draws them.

If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?