Quotes About Performance

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.

I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?

I don't have that much experience in the studio, but I'm always really uncomfortable when I'm there. You're on the clock and it costs a lot of money.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.

I have always made impresarios a lot of money across my career and have never, so far as I am aware, given any of them heart attacks.

The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.

Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.

Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living doing that?' He said 'Yes, this my livelihood.'

Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you're doing in business.

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.

The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

What you do for money you do badly.

Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.