I didn't necessarily hit rock bottom, but I was working at Sprinkles Cupcakes and trying to make money, not wanting to tell anybody that I was getting a job because other people that I knew from 'Idol' were like, 'Why aren't you singing places and making money off of the Idol name?' And I was like, 'Because I don't only want to be known for that.'

Making money is my third or fourth most favorite thing in the world.

The captains of industry do not keep on working for the sake of making money, but for the love of completing a job successfully.

I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.

The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.

My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.

I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers.

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

When I started making money, I immediately began buying property and fixing it up. I was always searching for the next neighborhood. The first place I bought when I was 19. I found a huge loft on the Lower East Side, almost 3,500 square feet. I did it up, turned it over, and sold it.

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted undergraduates who might otherwise have been scientists, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists or inventors.

The moment we put an end to speculation in land, we put an end to making money at the expense of our sons and daughters.

But I was an utterly hopeless politician and I worked out that I would be much better suited to making money and running businesses than the compromise that is politics.

Carried interest... you're making money on somebody else's capital. It's not on your own. If that's not income, I don't know what is.

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

The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it.

I like making money, but it's a scorecard. I'm not driven by that.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

There is a huge stigma around people who are online making money online.

From the outside, Yahoo was extremely successful. It was making money; it was still bigger than Google. But when I got there, I learned what a disaster of a company looks like from the inside. There were a lot of vice presidents, and it was basically a turf battle between them.