There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.
Sooner or later, we sell out for money.
One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?'
The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.
In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.
The only way I'd have gone was if it would better my career, I would not have gone just for the money. The point was to go to a club that could win trophies.
The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.
I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.
The role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money.
Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
Whenever I made money I invested in myself... I bought whatever I needed to make my career better. I never really spent money on other stuff, like buying expensive cars.
As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.
We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund the priorities of the country and you stop spending money when you get to zero.
I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.
Actors should be better poker players. But I think there's actual skill and crazy guts that you need to play poker - this ability to put all this money on the line inside of that game of cards. There's this whole different set of skills that doesn't ...
I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.
The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.
In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money... that was my reality.
