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

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

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

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

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

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

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

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

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.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Leadership is influence.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

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

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

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.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

I’m filthy rich!