It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

We have the best government that money can buy.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn’t have to write for my living.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

I’m not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

War is the business of barbarians.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

The movie business is a big gamble.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

I don’t care about money.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

It’s safe to say headphones is a good business.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.