Monetary Success Quotes

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me. I thought, "Half of this is workin'. I'm famous, but now I need to be famous with some money." That got my brain started at trying to figure out the business end. And once I figured out the business side, I next came to understand that success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters.

I guess there are different ways to handle success. You can multiply it financially and use it to multiply your net worth. That's always been very appealing to me.

My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.

Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes that people assume I am that rich. But I did things for the excitement, the dare, the fact that it was new, not for the money. And too many times I was the first, not the beneficiary.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

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

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

You have a gift that can make you rich. Everyone does.

We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

I cried all the way to the bank.

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in the barometer of success and how much money you make. But if you really just aspire to a life in the arts, it's really not a barometer at all.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living.

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.