Quotes About Success

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.

Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.

Startups should be, if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero, you're not making any money, you're not losing any money.

Everything changes, money rules. In my era, if you were successful, you were going to make money, but you never worried about it.

So money is not the answer to problems; wealth mentality is.

Do not be shy to call customers who owe you money. It works.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.

I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

While prosperity is in some ways related to money, it is not caused by money.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.