passion over profit Quotes

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.

You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.

Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short.

We've never written anything to have success with it. We've written songs that we love.

I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

I never went into business to make money, but I have found that if I have fun, the money will come.

I guess I would just say that in general, one of my weaknesses is that I love everything. There's too much of everything to keep up with it all. I get bored with Silicon Valley technology a lot. I've always had much more of a draw to the people who are doing things for love than the people who are doing things for money.

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.

Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.