Quotes About Work

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

When you are doing work of value, people will support you in a variety of ways, not just money.

I'm washing lettuce. Soon, I'll be on fries. In a few years, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.

Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.

If youre going to be at a job environment, you should love it. You shouldnt do it just for money. You should do it because you love it. And the money comes naturally.

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money.

I never count my money. I think that's your job.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

If time is money/ I'm an hour past paid

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.

I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning $10 a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

What you do for money you do badly.