Quotes About Motivation

If the reason you're taking on a mission is for the money you'll make, I believe you'll fail.

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.

I started to earn money because we didn't have money.

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: I could be out there making money right now.

When I first came on tour, I was playing for money. Now I'm playing to win golf tournaments and the money is more than I ever dreamed I could make.

The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and finally I did it for money.

The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

If we can (generate) the right emotion inside of us, we can get ourselves to do anything. If you don't have the money, but you're creative and determined enough, you'll find the way.

If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

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

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

If someone gives you $1,000,000 you'd better become a millionaire so you can keep the money. Success doesn't want to hang around incompetent people.

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration.