#but the way I see it Axl uses a lot of skills I started learning as those two that his gameplay felt like second nature from the jump

[art-stag]

I played a mean first few games as Axl Low when I first tried Strive with a friend- I like to imagine it was from the spirit of my old mains joining hands watching over me

[clembarbarossa]

Rest and Peace III

The life of an Assassin is one of constant toil, emotional duress and gruesome murders. So, I thought it would be nice to give them rest. Nice days to recover and do what they enjoy at least, amongst their loved ones.

Hey! New chapter is out! Special serving for all of you who love our Frye twins when their are little shites! 

Here on Ao3

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   « Jacob! That’s the third time this week you ditched Father’s lessons; he’s going to whoop your arse! » Evie bellowed. “And if I have to do your chores again, I’m going to kick your buttocks up to London!”

    No response. Typical.

    In this slow spring afternoon, only a few of the denizens of Crawley payed any mind to young miss Frye in her quest for her missing twin. They all have learnt that getting involved in the businesses of these two was way more pain than it was worth, especially if the esteemed Mr Frye wasn’t here to keep them in check, especially Jacob… although his sister could be just as much of a menace when she wanted to. How the scholarly and dignified Mr Frye could have sired such a rambunctious pair was anyone’s guess, but the early death of poor Cecily, their late mother, and the frequent absence of their father to mysterious “business travels” could most certainly be to blame. At least, that’s what Ms Perkins told Ms Brawnsworth when they last had tea together.

    Evie was simmering. None of the passers-by could give her any information about her brother’s whereabouts. He went too far this time. Skipping lessons was something already, but his chores too! He’s going to get it this time!

    After several fruitless leads, Evie sat on a bench to collect herself and devise a plan of action. Father’s teaching on this topic guided her to be methodical in her search and it wasn’t the first time she had to track someone to hone her skills, but few targets proved to be as elusive as her brother. He may feign to ignore a lot of their father’s teaching, but it certainly wasn’t lost on him. A search plan started to spring in her mind: going straight to the market place as she was used to was a mistake, she needed to go back to the source.

    Back home, the young girl started to inspect the surrounding of their house and it didn’t take long before she was able to spot her brother’s tracks… just under his bedroom’s windows. Couldn’t he use the door like a civilised person? He might have eloped this morning when Father called for them.

    From then on, Evie focused on the tracks Jacob made on the fresh ground. Contrary to what she first expected, it wasn’t an easy task. Not because her twin made any effort to hide his tracks but because they were frequently interrupted by his climbing of any buildings or trees that happened to cross his path. Evie frequently had to circle whole blocks of houses to find his path again. The process was considerably sped up when she reluctantly started to follow him in free-running. She wasn’t as skilled at it as he was yet, but her proficiency at stealth helped her to complete her task without being spotted and yelled at by any passing adult. Once on the rooftops, a few displaced tiles or mark of hands could help her guess the direction of his escape, details that would escape the perception of most people but not one of an Assassin. Well, a novice one, at least. Her focus would heighten her senses and allow her to see what most people would miss.

    She continued to follow Jacob’s trail and noticed it led to the Mole river. She wondered if he was here to plan mischief with his usual gang of brothers from the large Welsh family down street. The silence when she reached the riverbank surprised her, none of their usual ruckus could be heard. Evie noticed from the tracks that her brother sat near the water for a while before getting up to follow the stream. She followed his track till the ruins of the old mill.

    The contraption was in disarray since quite a few decades now, since bigger water and windmills were constructed in the village. Small water mills like this one couldn’t compete against the big ones like when the one in Ifield[1] once it was rebuilt and even this one was starting to struggle against the new ones using steam to grind wheat into flour. Such was progress, thought Evie. Now the old mill couldn’t grind anything even if it wanted to, the water wasn’t even reaching its rotting wheel through the overshoot anymore and sand was starting to pile up at its feet under the shallow stream. This was after noticing this that she spotted Jacob.

    Her idiot brother was lying on top of the wheel, the broken blades where in a near horizontal position and could actually feel comfy even without the blanket Jacob probably stole somewhere to lay down on them. Taking care to not be seen, Evie approached to get a better view of what her twin was doing. The rascal was lying on his back, one leg tucked on top of another, barefoot and – to Evie’s surprise – he was reading a book!

    Now the young girl was taken aback, Jacob actually went this far just to read in peace? And he seemed quite taken by his reading as well, what piece of literature could it be to rapture Jacob’s attention? She squinted to take a better look at it from where she stood.

    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Really??

    It was so just like him. Father taught them of the various drugs and chemicals they could use in the last lesson he actually attended. And he mentioned opium as something to avoid unless in need to alleviate extreme pain. Of course, Jacob had to learn more about everything Father warned them against.  Or could it be that he was reading this book in order to actually understand why this drug was to be avoided? Evie pondered a moment about her brother’s possible bout of wisdom and if she should make her presence known to him. She suddenly got curious about his choice of place of hiding instead. The broken blades atop the wheel couldn’t be the only thing of interest in this place, couldn’t it? The door of the dilapidated building was missing and Evie entered it.

    It took her eyes some moments to adapt to the darkness inside, although several rays of light were peeking through the ruined roof. Some birds were chirping above the young girl’s head and flew away when she moved further in. She paused, in case it tipped off Jacob of her presence, but the boy just lazily rolled on his side to assume another reading position. Evie sighed and started to inspect the mill’s mechanisms. The wood was rotten in many places and the grinding stone covered in dust and moss, but everything was still in place. Surprisingly, the wheel’s axle was still linked to the main mechanism and only held on by a rusting brake. Sure, it wasn’t as dangerous to leave it that way compared to a windmill but still, the brake could break and the wheel move again…

    It was with this sudden realisation that a mischievous grin illuminated Evie’s face. She knew exactly how to get back at Jacob for ditching his chores onto her.

    Whilst her dear brother was still oblivious of her presence, she moved to further inspect the brake and how to move it without alerting him. The damn thing was heavily rusted and the wood thoroughly rotten. She tried to move it without much success and the effort nearly made her grunt which would have given away her position. Her frustration, pilling up from this morning was reaching new heights as her idiot brother was obliviously reading junk literature just a few feet away. Collecting herself, she figured that a lever could do to lift the brake, more silently than a hammer for sure. She quickly spotted an adequate plank in the surrounding mess. Not to large and still in good shape.

    Placing the plank’s end under the brake’s tip, she started to maneuver it and had to refrain a sound of triumph when she saw the engine starting to give way. Through the holes in the wall she saw the wheel moving a bit. Jacob was so enraptured in his reading that he payed no mind to this worrisome – for him, at least – development. She pushed her lever again in the widening cap between the brake and the wheel and, once the lever firmly in place, pushed down all her weight on it.

    The brake jumped from the cogwheel it used to hold and the latter, free at last, started to move, the axle in tow. Slowly at first, with profusion of creaks and groans, that startled Jacob. The young boy sat up on reflex and the sudden change in weight distribution atop the main wheel, plus a few well-placed pushes from Evie, flew the whole engine in motion.

    “Wow-ah! What the bloody heeeeell?!” Jacob screamed as the he was cast down head-first by the wheel onto the mud bellow.

    From inside the mill, Evie had a really hard time suppressing her laughter when she saw her brother land flat on his belly, the blanket followed and covered him just before his book stroke his head which elicited a painful “Ow!” from the boy.

    Groaning and moaning, Jacob slowly emerged from under the now soiled blanket to stand up, still shivering from the shock. He glared with anger at the slowing wheel and kicked it. Being still barefoot at this point, he only managed to hurt himself and yelled in pain, before getting startled when broken fragment of the blades nearly feel on him. Evie had to bite her own hand to refrain herself from snickering at her brother’s ordeal. Said brother, once his pain dulled, started to suspiciously look around and Evie made sure to stand completely still and silent. After a few moments, he picked up the blanket and his book before fetching his shoes from under a bush and running in their house’s direction.

    Evie needed a few moments to collect herself as well, as spams of laughter wouldn’t let her breathe in peace for several minutes. Once calmed down, she left the mill to get back home.

    She reached their house while dusk was slowly setting. She saw her brother getting gently scolded by their father on their front lawn, the book now in his hand. Jacob was silently starring at the ground, Evie noticed that he had taken the time to put his shoes back but was still caked in mud in many places, the blanket was nowhere to be seen. Evie approached slowly, feigning an air of innocence:

    “Oh my! She said with a mocking tone, the bird has finally returned to his nest!”

    Both Ethan and Jacob turned to face her and Jacob squinted suspiciously at her. Ethan’s face remained neutral when he spoke: “Indeed, before you could find him.” Evie was picked by the unexpected answer and Jacob couldn’t help but notice it with a smirk that vanished once his father’s attention was back on him.

    “Now my lad, you’re going to wash yourself, change into clean clothes and you’ll launder those first thing tomorrow morning, understood?”

    “Yes father…” Jacob mumbled, and Evie couldn’t help but to feel a bit sorry for him after all. As he was making way inside the house, Ethan taped on the book cover and handed it to his son with a smile.

    “Make sure to finish it too and tell me what you learnt of it after, alright?”

    Both twins stood a moment, taken aback by this, but Jacob took the book from his father’s hand with a nod before heading home. Both Ethan and Evie watched him go silently before the Assassin turned to his daughter:

    “Now Evie, some more lessons in tracking targets are in order, don’t you think?”

    The young girl silently nodded. She probably had proven herself in this matter today but telling it would expose the prank she subjected her brother to and she wasn’t going to risk that. Plus, she was always looking up to the prospect of new lessons from her father and a part of her hoped that Jacob will finally be with them at least.

    “I think so too, Father. Jacob and I still have much to learn.” She said with an earnest tone that elicited a nod of approval from Ethan Frye.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifield_Water_Mill

[seriouslycromulent]

Hobbs & Shaw review (Yeah, this is going to be long)

The Preamble (feel free to skip)

I was on the fence about going to see the new Fast & Furious spinoff, Hobbs & Shaw. Why? Because I’m a legit fan of the F&F franchise, and I was none too happy about the fact that Vin Diesel invited Dwayne to be a part of the franchise as they were friends at the time, but Dwayne’s fans -- mostly denizens of The Rock who think he can do no wrong -- preceded to treat Vin like he was second fiddle to Dwayne ever since Fast Five. Dwayne, then over the course of 3 films, preceded to get the big(ger) head and show his ass on the set of the last film, and usurped Vin’s franchise right out from under him. 

What pissed me off more than that was the fact that after Dwayne and Vin got into it, the public not knowing any details or verification on what specifically happened on the set, decided to automatically take Dwayne’s side because ... “Hey! He’s the Rock and we like it when he plays characters that are only a slight variation on his persona when he wrestled full time in the WWE.”  There was no concern for right or wrong. No desire to ask both of these Alpha males to put their egos aside. No inclination to actually wait and learn about what really went down. No, the general public has since decided to brand Vin Diesel a joke with no acting skill or talent to speak of. 

Gone was Vin’s reputation as a scriptwriter, a producer and as a man who helped reinvent this franchise to turn it into something beyond simple street racing and a small found family making it happen in a hostile world. Honest Movie Trailers mocked Vin for taking the franchise seriously and actually putting time, love and effort into making sure each film had heart, not just great action scenes that defy the laws of physics and common sense. 

Dwayne has become a better actor than he was 15 years ago. I can name about 4 or 5 movies where his performance is pretty good. But Vin was always a good actor. Not great. But definitely stronger than he was given credit for once people started associating him with nothing but action films. On top of that, he was a writer and he knew how to create an environment that people of disparate personalities loved working together and being a part of the franchise. 

Flash forward to Hobbs & Shaw. There are no members of any of the F&F’s previous films in this movie. Tyrese called out Dwayne on social media for being selfish and greedy, because all of the other cast members were offered spinoffs too. But they turned them down because they wanted to work as a team. That’s how much the franchise means to them. Dwayne clearly had no sense of that loyalty, and obviously his biggest fans don’t have any expectations of him to have any either.

I’m still a fan of Dwayne Johnson, but not as much as I used to be, say 6 or 7 years ago. I still think he’s an immensely generous person when it comes to his fans, and he is a hell of an entertainer. But this situation involving Hobbs & Shaw, combined with some of his comments and behavior regarding sociopolitical events taking place in America over the last 5 years have reminded me that he is not without flaws, and should not be regarded as if he is above impunity. 

So Then What Happened?

Despite my misgivings about how the Hobbs & Shaw spinoff came about, I finally decided to go see it at the last minute for a few reasons:

I’ve had a particularly hard week and I needed to do something to blow off some steam.

I’m a huge fan of Jason Statham. I mean huge. I’m an action film fan in general, but Jason is one of my favorites in the genre. And it takes a lot of negatives to make me not go see one of his films. 

I adore Helen Mirren. Even if I knew her part would be small, I also knew I would love seeing her play off of Jason again. Their scene together in Fate of the Furious/Furious 8 was the highlight of the film for me (followed by the brief return of Luke Evans). 

I like Idris Elba. And he’s proven that whether playing a good guy or bad guy, he goes all in. Plus, I like him best as a bad guy.

I like Roman Reigns, and I wanted to be supportive of his first time on the silver screen.

So there it is. I’m a woman of integrity, but apparently, my integrity fades at the thought of actors I like getting to share a screen together. Feel free to judge me.

Now ... to the review

Hobbs & Shaw is exactly what you expect it to be. It doesn’t feel like it’s a part of the Fast & Furious franchise at all, but maybe that’s intentional. I think at the end of the day, audiences expect a F&F film to involve a cohesive, diverse team and something happening that changes your perspective about what you thought was going to happen. At least that’s been the franchise's m.o. since the fourth movie. 

But Hobbs & Shaw keeps a lot of the other elements of the F&F franchise alive. Namely, a solid mix of comedy and action, at least one woman who makes you feel both inspired and afraid, and just a lot of action sequences that test the suspension of disbelief. Oh yeah, and at least one kickass car chase. And that’s exactly what we get, plus a little more.

Here’s what I think worked, what didn’t, and what I loved (Warning: spoilers below):

What Worked For Me

Hobbs & Shaw is first and foremost an action film, but keeping with the Fast & Furious theme of family, the heart of the film takes us back to the connection and power of family. Unlike the original series, where family was defined as the people you find along the way, Hobbs & Shaw is more about bloodline and reconnecting with estranged family. For Hobbs, his family in Samoa. For Shaw, his relationship with his sister, Hattie, who believed that he had betrayed his country and his brothers- and sisters-in-arms. I’m glad they kept that aspect in, even though I liked the F&F’s original theme a little better.

I don’t know if it’s fair to call them cameos because they have more than one scene in the film, but the addition of Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Hart was a great move. Both are in the film long enough, but not too long. And each are given enough room to deliver what they do best.

The opening sequence showing Hobbs and Shaw starting their day is the perfect introduction to this spinoff. I loved the juxtaposition. If I had to choose a preferred lifestyle, I’d go with Shaw’s routine, but in sunny California.

Ryan Reynolds’ character’s name is Locke. I see what you did there. ;-)

Mama Hobbs throwing her flip flop at Cliff Curtis and hitting him in the face. What is it about brown mamas whipping shoes at their kids? LOL!

What Didn’t Work For Me

Was Brixton’s ambush of the CIA black site (which didn’t look too black to me) and kidnapping Hattie by running down the face of the building really the most efficient plan and escape? He literally picks her up, carries her on his shoulders, and runs down (with harness attached) the face of the building. It just seemed like it provided way too much of an opportunity for Hobbs & Shaw to catch up to him and for them to get her back. I love a great action sequence, but this one really makes the villain look impractical and hella extra.

Soooooooo, when Hattie is hooked up to the device to extract the virus capsules from her blood, the countdown shows it’s going to take 30 minutes. At that time, it’s dark outside and Brixton hasn’t arrived to start the final showdown. Fast forward to Brixton’s men driving up, The Rock doing that slow-mo walk out to meet them with no shirt on (gulp), and the other usos doing the Siva Tau while Brixton’s men realize their guns don’t work. Then the fighting starts. The sun starts to rise, and everyone is kicking ass and taking names. We see Hattie fighting 2 of the bad guys before Shaw shows up to help. At this point, the countdown on the device says she has 21 minutes to go. We’re supposed to believe that everything that just happened between the device starting the extraction, Brixton showing up, the Siva Tau before the fight, and the sun rising high enough for us to see Roman Reigns fighting alongside The Rock only took 9 minutes? ... Yep. Why? F&F Laws of Physics.™

I stayed until the credits finished -- if you do, you’ll see why -- and I was a little disappointed that they used the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i as a stand-in for Samoa. I imagine it might’ve been easier to get permits to shoot in Hawaii, but a part of me feels like it’s a major missed opportunity to not shoot the Samoan scenes in actual Samoa. 

Soooooooo, we’re supposed to believe that Roman Reigns (or any human being) could just land 2 large metal hooks on to the front joint axles of a truck speeding along in a life-threatening pace while he’s standing on the back of another truck racing ahead of it in one easy throw? ... Yep. Why? F&F Laws of Probability.™

Sure, Deckard Shaw was framed when he didn’t join Etion’s cabal of world domination, but again, he still killed Han. And at no point do we see him held accountable for that in Furious 8 or in this film. And there’s no allusion of him doing anything to atone for it in between the films. I adore Statham, but in the end, Deckard is still not a good guy in this franchise until he says or does something to address that terrible act other than “You guys put my brother in the hospital clinging for his life after some psycho made him do terrible things that killed a lot of people.” This detail still doesn’t sit well with me.

Soooooooo, we’re supposed to believe that the key to defeating this super soldier Brixton is by having Shaw and Hobbs work together. But didn’t the MI-6 officers that Brixton takes down in the beginning of the film work together? Were their team as petty as Hobbs & Shaw and failed to work together like a cohesive unit when fighting an enemy on a mission? I highly doubt that. The concept at the end is lovely and signifies growth in our leads’ relationship with one another, but it doesn’t quite hold mustard if you consider that the other teams of people Brixton’s battled throughout the film are plenty cohesive and get killed quickly.

I kind of wish The Usos (Jimmy and Jey) were in this film too. :-( That would have made it even more special given Dwayne used to work with their dad, Junior (aka Rikishi), in the WWE at the same time.

Sooooooooo, we’re supposed to believe Hobbs -- a non-genetically enhanced man -- can grab a huge chain with his bare hands that is connected to a helicopter and pull it close enough to wrap it back around a pulley system and keep that helicopter steady? ... Yep. Why? F&F Laws of Human Anatomy.™

What I Loved 

All things Helen Mirren. Seriously, I would watch a movie just about the Shaw family. The mum, the sister, the brother and Deckard. This film didn’t have enough Helen Mirren, but every scene she was in was a delight.

That little wink and nod to the audience when Shaw, while walking Hobbs and Hattie through his hidden lair, makes a reference to driving a Mini Cooper for “a little job he did in Italy.” I see what you did there. ;-)

Any scene with Jason Statham behind the wheel tearing up the streets of a city in the most impossible manner will always be gold. Always. Be. Gold. And that slide underneath the 2 semis by the car, and later, by the motorcycle, made my stomach clench so hard I think I might’ve pulled something.

Anytime Locke refers to his relationship with Hobbs as being close friends or family. Ryan Reynolds is absurd. Never change.

The entire conversation between Shaw and Hobbs on the plane. All of it. All. Of. It. It’s the funniest scene in the entire film. And a great callback to the display of chemistry they had together in Furious 8. 

Using a society’s history, where they did a helluva lot of damage without high tech weapons, to take on an enemy with high tech weapons, who without those weapons, couldn’t hold their own quite as easily, was a beautiful moment and ... great social commentary on the history of colonialism. (::cough::)

Cliff Curtis. He so rarely gets to play a character of Pacifika descent in American films. I’m happy this movie gave him a chance to do so.

Even though this is a part of their conversation on the plane which I already mentioned was awesome, I loved it when Hobbs reminds Shaw that this is not 1955, and he needs to relax about the idea of Hobbs making a play for Shaw’s sister. If she wants to climb that mountain, he’s going to let her climb it. LOL! It’s her decision, not her brother’s.

Roman Reigns getting to spear someone! Even though the camera cuts off the full beauty of it by switching to another angle 2/3 of the way through. I don’t care what anyone says, Joe Anoa’i’s spear is a work of art. (::phrasing::)

Hattie escaping from the virus extraction room’s chair and taking down her guards without any help made me want to stand up and cheer. You go, mama!

OK. That’s all I can think of for now. But given how long this post is, I’m sure anyone still reading at this point would say that’s more than enough.

With that in mind, if you haven’t seen Hobbs & Shaw yet, or you did, but you left before the credits finished, I wanted to let you know that there are 3 -- yes, count ‘em 3 -- scenes in the credits. 

The first is a scene with Ryan Reynolds, the second is one with Shaw & Hobbs, and the third, which comes at the very end, is another scene with Ryan Reynolds.

Enjoy!

[hiverforesteevee]

Superflarrow Sims Episode 4? Maybe 3

No screenshots this time, but we’ve got lots of highlights. a lot of highlights

@stillnotginger10 @kleptoandpyro @kiddystormi @stellecraft @sophiainspace @wyvernsongs @smallgargoyle @serpentcold

also shout out to Ginger’s sister: the master shade thrower

Pregame

NEW PEOPLE: Jayse and Klep

Where is everyone?

Activity that didn’t get cancelled despite it being -5 degrees Fahrenheit

Work

School

Doctor’s

Grabbing biscuits

Updaaaaaaaates!

Do the mods still work?

Does the custom content still work???

7 MINUTES in emojis

Sophia punning

Learning how to pronounce Aislynn’s name: Aze-Len

Klep’s great timing

Sophia’s tea and Klep’s wine

an empty, unbalanced neighborhood: STAR Labs next to the Waverider

Sophia might have a gin later

Ginger forgot all the keyboard shortcuts

Finding mics

There’s a voice chat?

Grabbing pizza

Grabbing spicy flakes for pizza

Game Time!!!

Happy Ray

Iris upset at how messy everyone is

Sara in the bath

Zari and Iris chat

Everyone else asleep

Axl in the Time Vault

Ginger remembering how to do the keyboard things

How’d Axl get a postcard???

Sara playing far away from Iris and Zari

Ray perpetually happy Palmer

Mick going from “I wanna cook” to “I wanna drink” in .0007 seconds

Ray at the barbeque

Mick hopes Ray starts a fire, but we don’t

Mick, Iris, and Zari at the table

Zari standing there like “Like my butt, Iris?”

Coldflashwave at the table

Barry smells

Zari stealing food from the table

Coldflash lost friendship points when Len regaled Barry in the thrill of the chase

“Wow, Barry, that’s rude” wanting to talk to Iris while talking to Len

Sara stealing Iris’s hotdog

Barry watching the cooking channel instead of taking a shower

Axl bringing back another postcard

Replacing the broken toilet

Ray and Iris walking in on Barry in the shower

Ray talking to himself in the bath—with arm gestures and everything

Run, Barry, run

Sara doing sit-ups in the kitchen next to the broken dishwasher

Mick learning the fitness skill all on his own

Oliver feeling no emotion

Len had a bubble bath

Len giving up on science to go have a drink

Barry liking the dude who ditched him for a toilet on their sugar date better than all his roommates

Zari and Mick gasping when they see Barry

They all sleep in the same room?  Yeah, cuz they’re all gay

They’re all really particular about their beds tho

Sara not going to work cuz she’s stuck in a non-room somehow

There’s not even a floor there, what is she standing on!?

RELEASE THE CANARY

I just wanna click Mick

Iris sitting on the side of the pool with Oliver standing next to her

Mick stole an apple

MICK GO SLEEP IF YOU’RE TIRED

Replacing the mailbox so they can have their bills delivered

I mean, why do we wanna pay bills?

Len focused on obtaining food

Run, Ollie, run

BARRY GO SLEEP IF YOU’RE TIRED

Oliver being funny with Len

How is Iris there!? That’s not a room!

Something wrong with the space-time continuum

Ray desperate to be funny with someone, anyone

Figuring out what he can and can’t steal

Len, steal something, don’t just play on your phone

Len’s ordering food—my god, he’s shit

Barry’s dirty and needs to use the restroom, so of course, he’s playing on the computer

We have 24 hours to pay the bills

Mick eating three plates of grilled cheese in a row

Don’t have bladder failure, just eat your grilled cheese

Cheating bladder needs away

No no no, Mick, keep eating!!!

Mick unlocking grilled cheese aspiration!

Sara better at sugar dating than Len and Barry

Sara gets the mischief skill from teasing flirtatiously

Sara successfully kissing her sugar date

Hacking our way to friendship

Ray and Oliver are romantic interests

Oliver is the only one who has any relationship with Axl

Ginger’s sister wanting us to kill one of them off so they can get a dog instead

Ginger’s sister throwing shade at their house

Ray is sad cuz he’s lonely

Ginger’s sister: GET HIM A DOG

Barry wants to chat with Mick and hug someone

Ginger’s sister: what if Barry accidentally dates Captain Cold?

Our coldflash-shipping asses would have no objections

Ginger’s sister: Why is his name Queen?  He’s not a queen.  He’s not Beyoncé.

[broken-clover]

Dust Strikers Story Mode 2/4

Part two of the story mode transcripts for Guilty Gear: Dust Strikers.

Part 1, Part 2 (Potemkin, Chipp, Eddie, Baiken, Faust), Part 3, Part 4

Potemkin

Potemkin: You youngster there. I see you have some talent. How about testing some of that talent on my fists? Axl: Man, you've got a nice build. But what do you have to gain? Plus, are you sure you can handle me? Potemkin: I wouldn't underestimate me. My drive for freedom locked inside my heart is my greatest weapon. Axl: Cool. I love peace and freedom too. But you might get out of breath when you're so stiff all the time. Ky: So you're fighting in the name of peace and freedom. Perhaps I might come up with answers for myself too. Excuse me, I'd like in as well. Jam: Just drive won't take you anywhere. There's no victory for those who can't face reality. I'll prove it to you right now!

May: Wow! Look how big you are! Potemkin: And so are you. May: Hey! That's not very nice! Potemkin: No, I just thought you grew a little compared to the last time I saw you May: Well thanks for the compliment. Think I'm good enough for Johnny now? Eddie: Having a host in her growth spurt...might not be a bad idea. Johnny: Out of the way, May! Potemkin: Humph! May:...Thanks Johnny: Thanks. I owe you one. Eddie: How dare you... May: Now it's my turn! I'll prove it to you that a girl in love is unbeatable!

Testament:...Long time no see. Millia: That's a first. You coming up to me to say hi. Things have changed, haven't they? Testament: You're still caught up in the past and changing the thorny path. Millia:...it's none of your business. Move out of the way, will you? Testament: I don't have a problem, but... Millia:... Testament: You seem hesitant. With such mixed feelings, it may cost you your life. Millia:!!! I must have lost my edge, to be getting advice from you. Potemkin: What he's saying is on the money. Those with swaying motivation never fight to their full potential. Please excuse my eavesdropping. Anji: Just happened to pass by. Millia: Then I guess I'll have to eliminate all doubts before I get to him. I'll need your cooperation for that.

I-no: That's an exciting combination Potemkin: That red outfit and guitar...you must be... I-no: You remember me? That's nice to know. Potemkin: Someone like you go unchecked...lucky for you I'm a little busy now. You pull out and I'll let you go. Zappa: Grrr! I'm gonna curse you! Faust: Looks like this won't need treatment. If we take too much time, the patient is not going to make it. I-no: Look, the beasts are making noise. But I'm afraid I don't understand what they're saying. So loud and annoying. Potemkin: That should be enough! It's time for me to shut you up. Faust: Looks like it is your mind-set that needs treatment. Fine, I shall treat you, then. I-no: Trying to act tough, are we? You damned animals. I'll cut you up and feed the dogs!

Dizzy: Umm, thanks for saving me back there in the woods. Sol: Forget about it. Didn't really mean to save you. Just did it for the hell of it. Dizzy: I think I found my place too. Potemkin: Didn't go according to Zepp's plan but the president understands. I'm relieved to see you smile. Dizzy: It's all thanks to you guys Slayer: Sorry to interrupt. Look at you. Looks like you've managed to find your way through. Dizzy: Yes, I think I learned that courage will open the doors to success. Though I still prefer not to fight. Slayer: So what about you? Do you have a verdict yet? Sol: It's none of your business. Potemkin: And what kind of revelations have you had in combat? Perhaps such things are unnecessary for people like youself. Slayer: Indeed. To me, combat is combat. Nothing more. It may be a means for deciding who wins and loses, but in the end it is merely a method. Potemkin: Then allow me the opportunity to put this method of yours to the test. Slayer: Fine. Let us see what you're made of.

Potemkin: Very unfortunate. Gig: Grr... Potemkin: It looks like it's too late. Gig: Grrrgh! Potemkin: Sympathy is the least I can give you.

Gig: Grr...grr... Potemkin: This is the end. Gig: Ghhh.... Potemkin: Rest in peace! Gig: Grr.... Potemkin: Don't take it personally. It would've been best if you turned out like him.

Potemkin: I see you're doing well. Dizzy: Yes, we're all getting along well. Potemkin: To be honest, I was initially reluctant about giving you up to pirates. But I can say for certain that now out Head of State understands. Dizzy: Yes. Right now I'm...pretty happy and peaceful. Potemkin: I can see that in your calm smile. I wonder if my painting can keep up with such a beautiful smile.

Chipp

Chipp: Hey! Hold it right there! Testament: What is it, human? Chipp: You're a Gear, aren't you? Testament: What are you going to do about it if I was? You one of those foolish humans who start attacking as soon as they find out someone's a Gear? Chipp: Not me. I've learned from experience that just because someone's a Gear, it doesn't mean they're all evil. Testament: That's a surprise. Thought you'd be the type that would steam through, and only act on emotion. Chipp: Don't screw with me. I'm gonna become president and the strongest in the universe. Just wanna put my skills to the test. Testament: Very well, then. Show me your so-called human powers. Dizzy: In that case, I'd like to help out. Sol: Sure, why not... Chipp: HEY!! Wait a sec! I never said 3 on 1! Testament: What are you talking about? There's only going to be one winner. Chipp: Oh, I get it. Not like I was scared or anything. Let's do it!

Chipp: Please, I'm begging you! Baiken: Geez, what is your problem? Chipp: Make me Japanese! Even samurai give mercy, don't they? Baiken: No samurai here. Not a chance, buddy. Be a big boy and get over it, willya? Anji: Hey, what are you doing here? Chipp: You'll do! Please, tell me how to become Japanese! Anji: There's no way in hell, man. Be content being the 'president' Chipp: NO! I wanna become the president, become a Japanese, surpass master's ninjutsu abilities and take revenge! May: You guys arguing over something? Chipp: Damn...what are you doing here? Anji: Yup. A 'Japanese' May: Japa...what? Why're you crying sir? Something wrong? Did I do something wrong? Chipp: I will reach the top! You watch me, master! May: Wow, you scared me! You know I'm tough when I'm mad!

Chipp: Hey! I have a question. Axl: Hi there, you look very hot. I-no: You talking about me? Axl: Of course! Who else would it be? Great body, silky smooth hair, you're electrifying! I-no: You're very good with words. Let me ask you then. Who's hotter? That woman or me? Chipp: Hey, listen up! Millia:...don't bother me. Chipp: !...you used to be in the guild! Millia: Yes, but that was a long while ago. Now I'm in the same boat as you. Axl: Ah man, this is a tough one. They're both really hot. Chipp: I'm taking down the guild! You women stay out of it! Millia: That I cannot do. Just like you, I can't pull out. Axl: This is a tough decision... Millia: And...quit staring at me with that perverted look on your face! Axl: Oops, I think I got her mad at me.

Potemkin: I heard from the president. I've been looking forward to this day to finally exchange shots with you. Slayer: One of the disciples, I gather. You think you can take me? You should beat him before coming to me. You'll pay a high price for this! Chipp: HEY! Hold it right there! You're the dude who founded the guild, aren't you? Slayer: That was quite a long time ago...I no longer have any involvement...but it is true that I am the founder. Chipp: That simplifies matters. I'm gonna destroy you! Jam: Looks like I've gotten myself into a hostile environment. Better get outta here... Slayer: Hmm, looks like you're a ki wielder. I'm interested in your combat style. Would you mind showing me some of it? Jam: I'm no cheap street performer. If you give me some of that spice, I'll think about it. Slayer: I should be able to accommodate you. Jam: That's a promise! Chipp: Quit ignoring me, both of you! You're going down!

Johnny: Oh man, I wasted so much time...There you are! Eddie: I'm impressed. Didn't think you would detect me. Johnny: I have the power to see the truth. You can't fool me with magic tricks. Venom:...Found you! You beasts who degrade Master Zato. Finally you can rot in hell! Eddie: You humanoids are good with words. But that kind of talent is needed to be adequate for my body. Chipp: Freeze! Don't you move! You're all guild members, aren't you! I hold all of you responsible for killing my master! Venom: At a time like this? I'm not letting anyone lay a hand on Master Zato's body. Johnny: Well, I'm kinda... Chipp: Shut up! Guilds, pirates, no difference! Today you face death. Eddie: Ha! Foolish humans once again, being hostile against one's own kind. I shall erase you altogether!

Chipp: Damn! Gig: Grr... Chipp: What is it? You wanna dance? Then I'm taking no pity on you! Gig: Grrgh! Chipp: Holy Zen! Go to hell!

Gig: Grr...grr... Chipp: Ha! I guess it's my victory! Gig: Grr... Chipp:...what's this? I'm feeling sick to my stomach....damn it!

Chipp: (That monster smiled before it died. All I was doing was battling hard. Wasn't aware of things I can't see. Did I really get stronger? Guess I still got a long way to go!)

Eddie

Eddie: Haha. There they are. Human, candidates to become my host. Ky:...! There you are! Eddie: You've found me. But I'm even more excited about your combat abilities. Ky: You're...! Zato! Or have you already been taken over. Eddie: That's correct. Former leader of the Holy Knights and a Japanese woman. And you there, I sense a lot of potential. Axl: You talking about me? Baiken: This monster sure does talk a lot. Eddie: Haha! You should feel honored. I shall find out right now whether you are adequate to become my body! Baiken: Who do you think you are? Beat it!

Bridget: Whoah, everybody looks tough Chipp: Hey! what's a kid doing here? Eddie: A child. Attractive in terms of her youthfulness but too immature to become my host Bridget: You're not taking me seriously? Then let me show you my moves Sol:...back off. Don't be wasting my time Eddie: Interesting. I shall keep a record of the battle results for future reference Bridget: Don't be surprised! Here I come! Sol: What am I, a babysitter? I can't deal with this...

May: Wow! Look how big you are! Potemkin: And so are you. May: Hey! That's not very nice! Potemkin: No, I just thought you grew a little compared to the last time I saw you May: Well thanks for the compliment. Think I'm good enough for Johnny now? Eddie: Having a host in her growth spurt...might not be a bad idea. Johnny: Out of the way, May! Potemkin: Humph! May:...Thanks Johnny: Thanks. I owe you one. Eddie: How dare you... May: Now it's my turn! I'll prove it to you that a girl in love is unbeatable!

Eddie: You are the same as me. Zappa: Yes...I feel the animosity. Eddie: Looks like it's a mind parasite. No good as a host. Dizzy: Are you two...related? Or have you both been exploited badly by humans in the past? Eddie: That's correct. As a weapon. But things will be different from now on. Dizzy: Huh? Eddie: I shall find a more powerful host, and I shall be the one to dominate the human race! Faust: Can't let that pass. I apologize for the selfish acts of humans, but your body can't live without a host. This is where I can help you. Eddie: Silence! You lowly human! I am going to acquire Gear power and take revenge on humans! Dizzy: What? So you're planning to use my powers? Not all humans are bad, you know. If you sit down and talk to them. You can't take my happiness from me!

Millia: So...we meet again...Zato. Eddie: So you still haven't gotten over him? Millia: Shut up, you damn beast...I'm talking to him, not you! Eddie: What do you want to talk to ME about? Millia: I'm taking you down. I'm sick and tired of looking at your pathetic, bony remains. Venom: Not so fast...! Master Zato is regarded as the crown-jewel of the guild. You'll have to hand him over to me...! Slayer: I've told you the Guild is no more. No raison d'etre and no purpose. Continued existence will only bring further regret and despair. Venom: Oldtimes can keep their mouth shut. The guild no longer belongs to you. Millia: It has nothing to do with me anymore, I don't care what happens to it. I just want to take care of this guy with my very own hands. Eddie: Do you think it will be that easy? What do "I" think?"...Not so easy, "I" say. Venom: I sense you...Master Zato. I am going to free you, Master, from the evil spell of death! Eddie: Ha ha...this is great! Lowly humans who cannot accept death. That's the right evil spirit to have! Slayer: I'm the one who started all of this. I must atone for my past deeds. Fine, let us put an end to it all.

Eddie: You've been taken over by power. Gig: Grr... Eddie: What a pitiful sight... Gig: Grrgh! Eddie: Funny how I'm the one saying that.

Gig: Grr...grr.. Eddie: Even Gear with all of its power released is not so powerful. Gig: Ghhh... Eddie: Die. Gig: Grr...

Eddie: Can't seem to find any good bodies. Since nobody is as powerful as I am. That female's body had a chance. But again, my powers were too much and again it did not work out. Hahaha!

Baiken

Johnny: Bravo! Very impressive! Baiken: What do you want? Get outta here. Johnny: Nothing beats having a beer in the company of a beautiful woman. How about a drink? May: Johnny! Johnny:...Maybe we’ll have to call it off. Baiken: So the stud turns helpless in the presence of an innocent girl. See ya! Slayer: Hmm, a Japanese...is it a coincidence that both of you are rather...masculine? May:...huh? Johnny: Hey, better stop talking so much. Old people can take a hike.

Faust: Traveling lady with the scent of blood. Where are you headed? Baiken: Get lost, you lame doc. It's none of your business. I can kill whoever I want. Chipp: Woman enduring countless bloodshed. So you're that Japanese beauty? Ky: There's nothing but anger inside you. As a protector of public safety, I can't let such hateful words pass Baiken: Kid, if you don't wanna get hurt, you should just keep your mouth shut Ky: I have confidence in my sword. Not exactly my favorite option, but in this case I have no choice Faust: What you need is some time off in total peaceful serenity. As a physician, it is my obligation to make sure that you are cured.

Zappa: Um, excuse me, I was wondering... Baiken: Yeah what? Why are you so fidgety? Act like a man, will you? Zappa: Oh, I'm sorry. I'm looking for a person, Fa- Baiken: Fa...who? Zappa:...Fricken nasty! Baiken: What's going on here? I'm surrounded by freaks. Testament: How rude of you to say that. I've long given up my human name, but by no means am I a freak. Venom: This is a supernatural phenomenon. Quite interesting. I'd like to see more of your powers. Baiken: Man, this is a real drag. I'll blow you all away! Testament: Lowly humans shall die!

I-no: What do we have here, the desperate bachelorettes council? Baiken: What kind of greeting is that? That's not a very nice thing to say Jam: That's right! You're rude! And what about you? I-no: Oh dear, don't be so uptight. It's just a joke, honey. Or were you offended 'cause I was right on the mark? Millia: You're a joke. Why don't you get outta here. I-no: Oh no. I'm scared. I guess this is how women become as they get older. Baiken: You crazy! I'll cut you up into pieces! Jam: I'm not showing you any mercy either! Millia: If you're not gonna get outta here, we'll have to get rid of you. It's as simple as that. I-no: You're such sweethearts. Very well, I make you cry lots. We'll find out how loud you can cry.

Anji: Finally found you. Sol:...It's you again. Anji: Let me ask you straight out. Do you have any idea where 'he' is? Sol: So what if I know? Anji: Can you tell me where he is? Of course I'm willing to work for it. You and I have a bout, and if I win, you tell me. Sounds fair? Baiken: Wait! Let me in on the festivities Sol: Sorry, not interested. You guys enjoy each other's company Anji: Even Justice feared my powers...Still not interested? Sol:...! Baiken: Shut your trap! You're starting to get on my nerves. I'll kick all of your butts right now! Axl: Whoa!...Damn it...is this a bad time? Baiken: Eavesdropping, are we? I'm not impressed! Axl: I just wanted to ask chief something Sol: And even you. Why does everyone want to stick their noses in other people's business! Axl: No worries, chief! Just a quick bout, no hard feelings! Sol: I'm not responsible for what happens.

Baiken: There may be no point in asking you, but I'll ask anyway. Gig: Grr... Baiken: Some Gears out there aren't violent. Are you one of them? Gig: Grrgh! Baiken: Alright. I take that as a 'no'

Gig: Grr...Grr... Baiken: Okay...I guess that's it. Gig: Ghhh... Baiken: Let me take you to the land of the dead where you belong! Gig: Grr...

Baiken:...This guy's a pain in the neck. 'That Man' can't even take care of his problems himself, what a joke. Sit back and enjoy life while you can. I'm coming for you!

Faust

Faust: Traveling lady with the scent of blood. Where are you headed? Baiken: Get lost, you lame doc. It's none of your business. I can kill whoever I want. Chipp: Woman enduring countless bloodshed. So you're that Japanese beauty? Ky: There's nothing but anger inside you. As a protector of public safety, I can't let such hateful words pass Baiken: Kid, if you don't wanna get hurt, you should just keep your mouth shut Ky: I have confidence in my sword. Not exactly my favorite option, but in this case I have no choice Faust: What you need is some time off in total peaceful serenity. As a physician, it is my obligation to make sure that you are cured.

Sol:...Whew... Jam: How rude. What's your problem? Faust: Is there something wrong? Sol: A doctor and a chef? This is a big joke. Quit following me wherever I go. Go back to your real jobs, man! Faust: This is what it takes to master the tricks of the trade. It's necessary to learn to see things from the patient's perspective. Jame: The art of cooking is also a quest. You're not gonna find anything new just by sitting around. Venom: Then I should get to know a wider variety of opponents. Let's roll! Sol: Move it. Just go to bed!

Anji: You know Sol, don't you? I-no: You meet a woman for the first time and that's the first thing you ask me? I want to know more about you. Anji: My apologies. Last name is Mito, first name is Anji. I'm just a journeyman. I-no: thanks for the introduction. And what can I help you with? Anji: I've been wanting to meet 'That Man.' I-no: Really. You won't live long, dear. Eddie: That's not necessarily the case. As long as you become a part of my body! Ha! Anji: Two on one? This is a tough situation. Faust: Looks like you're having trouble. I can assist you to the best of my humble ability. I-no. Thanks for showing up to your own funeral, doc! Faust: No matter who, my mission is to save lives. Let us apply some drastic remedies, shall we?

May: Phew... Faust: That was a deep sigh. Did something happen? May:!...I have the chills again... Faust: Oh, excuse me. I'll back off. Looks like something's troubling you. Whatever I can do to help May: Thanks...um, I don't know what it is, but my heart feels tingly and I feel gross. Faust: That's not good. Let me take a look. Dizzy: May! We were looking all over for you! Johnny: Finally found you, girl. Where were you? Why'd you disappear all of a sudden? May: Johnny! And Dizzy's with him too... Faust: Hmm, I see, I see. I think I understand the situation. Times like these, you need a breather. Perhaps some exercise will help.

Bridget: Wow, what a massive frame you got. Potemkin: Well, I was born big. This fist I use for what I believe in and to engage in art, nothing else. Bridget: So you're an artist. Good for you. Maybe you can draw something for me? Faust: Should be safe if I've come this far. Bridget: Wow, landing using just an umbrella, that's amazing. You from the circus? Faust: No actually, believe it or not I'm a... Zappa: Dr. Faust! (sigh...sigh...) Faust: My goodness, he's caught up already. Bridget: This is remarkable! How do you bend your joints and run like that? You must be a yoga expert. Zappa: Quick, doctor, please do something! Look! I'm bent all over the place! Oh no!!! Faust: Looks like it's begun. I'll have to take drastic measures. Potemkin: Is it fate that I happen to be here? What the heck, I can help out. Bridget:...! What amazing tricks! Now it's my turn! Check this out!

Faust: This is quite a serious condition. Gig: Grr... Faust: That's right, don't be scared. I'm here to treat your condition. Gig: Grrgh! Faust: I think you'll need some anesthetics.

Gig: Grr...grr... Faust: Finall you've calmed down. Please stay still. I'll take a look. Gig: Ghh... Faust:...! You saying you want euthanasia?...Alright then. Regrettable, but this is the only way. Gig: Grr... Faust:...

Faust: Now, where should I go next? I shall continue practicing medicine as long as there are patients to treat. That is my mission in life!

[hankkd7]

Rathalos Armor X Scorches in!

Stageshow:- Kobuns (Servbots) (As Audiences) claps & cheers Kobun #5, 11, 23 & 36 (In Magnamalo costume): Roar...! Roar...! Kobun #4, 15, 21 & 39 (In Rathalos costume): Roar! Roar...! Iris (Dressed as Princess): Zi-O! Save me! Zi-O (Kobun #20): Ride on Rathalos (with 4 Kobuns inside the costume) Surrender, Decade. Release Iris-hime (Princess Iris) or I'll shall defeat you! Decade (Kobun #10): Ride on Magnamalo (with 4 Kobuns inside the costume) Never! Prepare to fight, Zi-O! Zi-O & Decade: Charge...! Later Decade: No...! I have been defeated... Ah...! Play dead Zi-O: Iris-hime! I am here to save you! Untie Iris Kobuns: Yeah...! Iris-hime is saved! Iris: My hero. Kiss Zi-O Teehee. Kobuns cheer & clap 10 Kobuns (Actors) sing 'Kamen Rider Saber Dragonic Knight' theme song in Monster Hunter version 10 Kobuns: 🎵The Hunter appears. When you side, you have no grief and the blade is shine. Come on, Hunter. Fight! Monster Hunter Rise!🎵 Kobuns cheer & clap RiCO: Ooh! Fantastic play, Kobuns & Iris-sama. Yeah! Good thing I recorded it. Player-san will get a lot of Subscribers on Youtube. Rathalos Armor X scene:- RiCO: Ahem! Attention, Everyone. Player-san has bought a new armor for X-sama. Rockman.EXE: New Armor? We can't wait. Right, Netto-kun (Lan)? Netto: Yeah! RiCO: Ahem! Oh, X-sama~ You can come out now. Gates open & X walks in Everyone surprised to see X's new armor RiCO: Ta-Dah! Presenting... Rathalos Armor X! Volnutt: Rathalos Armor X? Hold on, X never has that armor in every Rockman X games. RiCO: Correct. That's because it's Collaboration. X-sama has a new armor from Monster Hunter Rise. Rockman.EXE: So, where did that armor comes from? RiCO: Show the photo of Rathalos From this. Cinnamon: Eek! What's that? RiCO: This is Rathalos, A Flying Wyvern. Aile: So, this armor are made from that beast? Why? RiCO: Well... Hunter V: Allow me to demonstrate about Rathalos, RiCO-houjo. Hunter R: No, I shall demonstrate. RiCO: How about you two demonstrate together. One at the time. HV: Very well. HR: Why not? HV & HR tell everyone about Rathalos HV: That's why Rathalos is special. Zero: I see. RA X: Beware, Irregular (Maverick). For it is I, Rathalos Armor X shall use this Blade to destroy you. Axl: Dude, why are you saying that? X: Haha. Sorry, I'm just getting used to this armor. Now, who dares challenge me, meet me at the Simulation Room. Simulation Room:- X: Zero, I won't go easy on you. Zero: Hmph. Is that what you called yourself 'Irregular Hunter'? More like 'Monster Hunter' if you should join the group. Raise his saber X: Ha. The hard way it is. Let's fight! Later Zero: His saber fly off his hand & shocked I'm impressed, X. I'm sure you'll slay every Irregular on the mission. X: Thanks. Player will choose me for that. Next:- Colonel: Rathalos Armor X, let see you've got what it takes to learn that Sword technique. X: I have been used Zero's Saber & other Melee weapons. My sword will beat yours. Iris: X, please don't hurt Nii-san. Iris (Another): Relax. He won't. X: Don't worry, Iris. I'm only knock off his sword besides hitting him. Colonel: Hmph. A wise decision. Raise his saber En Garde! Later when Colonel's sword fly off his hand Colonel: Nani?! X: How's that? Colonel: Hmph. Impressive. You are truly worthy to used this sword skills, Rathalos Armor X. I yield. Iris: Smile Nii-san... Next:- Sigma: Tsk. Your stupid armor won't beat me, X. X: We'll see about that, Baldi. Raise his Rathalos Sword Sigma: GR...! You'll be sorry for calling me that. Raise his saber Bring it! Later Sigma: Ow... This isn't over, X. Do you hear me?! This isn't over! Hit the wall when he's not looking at the door Ow!Next:- Vava (Vile) MK2: Hahahahahaha! Do you think you can defeat me & my Brown Bear (Goliath), X? RA X: You beat Massimo, Vava. Now, I'll shall avenge him! Massimo: X avenges Massimo. X will beat TinCan! Vava MK2: Go, Brown Bear! Brown Bear move Later RA X: Rathalos Fire Breath! Vava MK2: Brown Bear knocked AAH! No! Impossible! Massimo: X defeats TinCan! X makes Massimo happy! Vava MK2: GR... I'll get you next time, X. Next- Tripped by

Brown Bear Ow! Next:- Omega: I am the Messiah! Hahahahahaha! X: Did you seriously say that every time? Omega: Enough talk. Raise his saber Come at me! Later Omega: AGH! Onore (Curse you)... Rathalos Armor X! At DiVE House:- X: Whew! I'm sure used that skill this day. Rockman: Hey, RiCO. Will I get that new armor like X? I have Rush as my armor but I'm kinda want another armor. RiCO: Hmm... I'm sure Capcom will develop something for you, Rockman-sama. It will takes some time. Forte (Bass): Heh. Are you jealous, Rockman? Rockman: Watch your mouth. Why would I jealous my brother's armors? Forte: Oh, that's because he has more armors than your armor from a dog. Ha! How does that feel jealous. Blues (Protoman): Don't listen to him, Rockman. Roll: Insulting Roku again, you'll be sorry, you meanie. Forte: Tsk. Whatever. Walk to his room X: Nii-san... Rockman: It's alright, X. Don't worry about it. Sigh & Watch TV RiCO: X-sama~ Player-san has choosing you on the event mission. So, get going. RA X: Roger. Ready for the mission, Player. Let's go! Rathalos Armor X teleported Rockman: *Sigh*... Pandora: Do you want to watch My Little Pony? Rockman: sure... Pandora changes the channel & MLP starts THE END

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Star of the Circus

Chapter 1

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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

-Aberjhani

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The tent was on fire.

It wasn’t that alarming, the tent was set on fire nearly once a week when the jugglers lost a pin during practice or the knife throwers on occasion went wide of their targets. No one was as of yet running towards the tent trying to rescue equipment and animals, so the fire couldn’t be that big even if she could see the smoke rising from her vantage point on the Ferris wheel.

From the blue streak Fin was swearing from his perch above her, Leora bet the head mechanic saw it too.

“Fifth time dis fuckin’ month.” The crotchety old man spat, then cursed anew when the action sent his cigarette the roughly eight stories to the ground. Used to his bitching, Leora dug through the tool kit she was holding before tossing a slightly crushed carton of cigarettes to the man. Another round of cursing had her tossing up a lighter.

For how much he hated fire of any kind Fin could, and has, smoked like a chimney for the twelve years Leora had known the man.

“This scrap heap is as good as it’s going to get, Fin. We might as well head down make sure the big top will stay standing.” She called up after another twenty minutes of Fin trying to fix a broken axle and failing miserably. The Ferris wheel needed to be replaced altogether, but the circus master was a cheap bastard. If it still somewhat ran and wouldn’t kill anybody it stayed. Usually covered in brightly colored duct tape.

Leora also just wanted to get down. She didn’t mind heights; she spent too much time with the acrobats and on top of machinery as Fin’s grease monkey/packhorse for fear to even be considered. But she was on top of the Ferris wheel during the very windy tail end of a European October, covered in grease, and unable to push the shoulder length curly mass of dark hair that had escaped its tie out of her face without getting said hair covered in grease. Since grease was a bitch to wash out of anything getting down was the next best option. Checking on the big top was as good of an excuse as any.

She got a ‘hn’ in reply. Taking that as a yes Leora scampered down, making use of circus level acrobatic skills that always pissed the old man off to get down faster than he could with the latter.

Growing up with a circus had its perks. Every person was expected to pull their own weight, whether they were the six year old orphan girl picked up from a passing town to the old hands with silver hair and bent backs. Since she had joined at such a young age she had been passed around a lot, and was expected to at least pick up a few tricks or skills of the people she was minded by or ran errands for. She could juggle, breath fire, bullshit fortunetelling, walk the high wire, pickpocket, and other slight of hands with the best of them. Martial arts had been an unexpected bonus.

After the Second World War China had cracked down on the traditional culture. Practicing martial arts had been forbidden. The Cirque de Lumière had managed to pick up to two young hitchhikers when they had quickly passed through Shanghai to get out of the view of the Red Guard. The two martial artists decided to stay with the circus. Nearly fifty years later, they were both delighted to have a young and malleable student even if they weren’t quite for gender equality on a proverbial battlefield.

Eager to please, Leora had all but thrown herself into learning everything they had wanted of her. Training as it turned out was hell, pure and simple. She couldn’t walk straight for most of her first year with the Cirque de Lumière and she got little to no sleep staying up practicing anything and everything. But it made her new family happy so the bruises, scars, and burns she got were inconsequential.

Dodging a pair of carney workers attempting to haul part of a game stall into place, Leora started jogging towards the Big Top. She’d take a shower after she knew if everyone was okay.

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The tent was still on fire.

Not the ‘we’re going to need a few swatches of fabric to patch up the hole’ fire but the ‘oh shit call the fire department I fucked up’ kind. And boy did someone fuck up.

A good chunk of the ceiling was missing, fire eating its way through the fabric and along the pulleys used for shows. Angry sparks rained down and were blown into the sides, starting new fires as the wind rushed through any gaps it could. Leora could just see more fire sparking from the electrical work that ran the lights and sound. The wiring had been old and needed maintenance at least once a week since it was never replaced. This was probably the master’s fault Leora realized with a sinking feeling of horror.

Goddamn cheap bastard.

People were scrambling, moving around like ants trying to save what they could. Animals were being restrained and drug out as people screamed and barked out orders. Delicate equipment was tossed around like props while people grabbed what they could. One lone clown was futilely trying to put out the fire with his bottle of seltzer. Tossing away her greased soaked work gloves Leora joined in.

The heavier equipment the men were already taking care of so Leora moved to help the acrobats as they shoved costumes and the smaller props into bags and trunks to haul away. She was on one of the last bags when the supports started to give.

Cursing, sack slung over her shoulder, Leora dove out of the way of a falling platform. Sparks flew everywhere, catching the grease on her jacket and forcing her to rip it off or else get burned.

Twirling out of the way of another falling beam Leora cursed again. She was too far away from the main entrance to be able to safely make it across. Even now sparks rained down, catching the remaining equipment that the others had decided were a lost cause alight. Her best bet would be one of the holes that had been burned into the tent. Unfortunately, the closest one on her side of the tent was directly under another merrily burning platform.

Another crash a few feet behind her had her stumbling forward. The potentially deadly platform didn’t seem that bad anymore.

Leora had just enough time to register that the flames surrounding the hole were white before the platform gave way and she was forced to dive through. She regretted it almost instantly.

Pain exploded in her back and head as the white flames flicked towards her, radiating out until even the tips of her fingers were screaming. Her vision went white, distracting her from the sensation of going weightless instead of tumbling onto the frost hardened ground outside the tent. The sack slipped from her now numb fingers as the white gave way to black.

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The first thing that fully registered when Leora managed to claw her way back to consciousness was that everything ached. Starting at the roots of her hair and on to the tips of her fingers and toes was a throbbing sensation that vaguely reminded her of the drum that had been used during one of the shows; every beat had filled the stands and echoed in her chest, giving her a feeling of emptiness and an overall sense of discomfort. The second thing that registered was the noise, or lack thereof. It was never quiet with the circus, let alone when the big top was in the process of being burned to the ground. She expected bitching at the very least.

Forcing gritty eyes open, she squinted up at something flat and made of concrete maybe six feet away from her face. It took her longer than she’d like to admit before she realized that it was the underside support of a rather old looking bridge which confused the hell out of her. There weren’t bridges of any kind near the town they’d set up near. Why was she under one? Where was everyone else?

Attempting to sit up was almost immediately regretted. The world spun in dizzying loops, and her stomach decided to lodge itself somewhere between her lungs and throat before twisting itself in knots. It took nearly ten minutes for Leora to claw her way into a sitting position and even then she had to bury her head in her knees to fight against the urge to be sick as black swam around the edges of her vision.

She hadn’t felt this bad since the first time she got a concussion falling off the high wire and bouncing from the net to the floor.

She had to be careful to wedge herself as close to the concrete support as possible once her vision was mostly clear of spots. The bridge was built over a river, and the water had swelled under the torrent of rain she was only now noticing, lapping near the edges of her feet and threatening to spill over onto the almost non-existing ledge that she’d woken up on near the top of the medium sized supports.

She vaguely wondered how the hell she managed to scale the underside of a bridge without realizing before her hand brushed against cloth.

Partially in the river was the sack that she remembered taking with her when she swan-dived through the hole in the tent with all the grace of a green acrobat. It was mostly soaked through, but it was the only thing that was even remotely familiar Leora had seen since she’d woken up. Dragging it as best she could into her little dry spot she decided to see exactly what she had to work with until she caught back up with the circus. She had got separated on occasion and had taken several days up to a few weeks to hunt down her family again. It was annoying and tended to happen when equipment or trucks broke down more often than not, getting lost in the confusion of the Big Top burning down wasn’t surprising, but it was always better to have something on hand to either use as tools or pawn to make a little food money and train fair. The master would bitch, but that was normal and he’d still end up clucking around the newly returned stragglers for hours like a worried mother hen.

There wasn’t much to work with.

A silver and black costume from when the trapeze girls had done the Artemis and the Hunt theme over a month ago, two lengths of grey aerial silks from the same show, an equal amount of rope, a jugglers set of knives and pins, tarot cards, the basic magic kit that the handful of magicians they had on hand insisted be stored everywhere, a large ornamental-looking fan, a flask of torch oil, a flask of whiskey which made her huff a laugh, and a box with several pieces of costumes jewelry and a locket with The Cirque de Lumière’s candle and star design etched onto the silver plated front.

The last piece made her smile, even if she cringed a bit guiltily. The locket was a custom piece she’d had made over a year ago for the elderly Icelandic fortune teller that was the closest thing Leora had to a grandmother. The circus hadn’t been able to stay in one place for very long and she’d only recently picked it up when they went through the little Romanian town later the next year. She’d asked one of the acrobats to hide it for her because Amma Eva always seemed to know when she was hiding something. She planned to give it to her at Christmas.

Slipping it around her neck, Leora traced the delicate etching on the front before using a thumb nail to pry it open. The smiling and somewhat cranky faces of her rag tag family stared back at her. Master Yaozu, one of her martial arts teachers and the weapons master, a bear of a man she referred to as Afi Viktor once she got over her fear of the hulking Icelandic, looked two seconds away from going at each other’s throats if Eva wasn’t firmly situated between her husband and the other offending party with a long suffering expression plastered over her heavily lined face. The two old men had hated each other when they were younger, and still barely tolerated each other nearly forty years later.

Huffing out another laugh that didn’t make her body ache quite as much as the first time, Leora went to close the locket when her eye caught the mirror on the other side and she froze.

…That was not her face.

Well, it was her face, sort of. Holding the mirror farther away from her she took in the wild mass of curly dark hair, coffee colored eyes, and the lines of a heart-shaped face. It was her face…when she was about a decade younger than her eighteen years.

She blinked at the reflection, it blinked back. She stuck out her tongue and it did the same. Running a hand over her face Leora noted that the reflections hand was equally as small and childish. Somewhat unnerved she fully focused on her own hand to compare the differences between the tiny trick mirror and reality.

The locket slipped through numb fingers when she realized that the hand holding it was small and childish. Holding up both hands Leora took in the child’s hands- which were apparently her hands- and followed the length of equally small arms before shooting down to stick like legs and tiny bare feet that were nothing like her eighteen year old frame. She wiggled the toes of a body that couldn’t be more than ten.

Leora fainted.

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The Right Equipment and Premises to Start an Auto Repair Workshop

Ready to open an auto repair shop? If you are a highly skilled and versatile mechanic, you may find it to be very restricting working for someone else when you could be running your own business and making real money at the same time.

Ready to open an auto repair shop?

Starting your own automotive repair shop or automotive workshop is the dream of good mechanics everywhere. I have lived that dream.

If you are a highly skilled and versatile mechanic, you may find it to be very restricting working for someone else when you could be running your own business and making real money at the same time.

The right equipment is essential to opening an auto shop. It takes a good knowledge of workshop equipment to make all the right decisions and you also need to learn using and to maintain different equipment correctly.

A good automotive shop equipment company will ensure you have all owners and parts manuals as well as service directives for all the heavy equipment you purchase or lease.

The company should also be capable of providing any training necessary to operate each machine safely. Most will do so for free and on-site.

People skills are paramount in this business and a caring helpful personality as well as a love for your job are prerequisites when starting an auto repair shop the right way.

If you care about your work, customers will care about using your workshop to do all their mechanical repairs and servicing, so you need the right tools and equipment to do a broad range of work.

If you love what you do and want to do it for yourself, I say go for it!

You will need some cash for setting up the building lease, and painting your floor, signwriting, etc and buying or leasing equipment, ( In western countries between $20,00 and $100,00 is the usual cost range for setting up a small shop to a larger operation with 4 lifts.

You will already have heaps of enthusiasm talent and skills to do the work and have the patience to learn about setting up with the right premises machinery and equipment.

Having said that, I started my first workshop out of a leaning ricketty old shed at home that would hardly hold one car. I know of others that have done the same. Like most things, it depends on how badly you want it!

The more markets you can cover the better, so having a wide range of profit centers provides better turnover and more profit safety providing you do not spend more on machinery than you should for your market size.

Frankly, I always go after providing a wide range of services and free advice to keep them in my shop rather than having to send them elsewhere to have their air-conditioning recharged, their discs skimmed, or their wheels aligned, etc.

Taking alignment work and then outsourcing it is time-consuming, provides only small profit and takes time to deliver and pick up your customer’s car from the alignment center.

You can now do alignments without a 4 post hoist using up a lot of space. The best of this equipment is expensive, so I suggest leasing your equipment if you have a good credit history.

WORKSHOP PREMISES.

The building needs to have the following features.

Wide access.

Customer’s cars need room to drive in straight then go out straight to get on and off hoists unless the building is very deep, there will be no room to align the vehicle with the hoist if access is too narrow.

If space is very limited, you can use rolling jacks that sit under the tire to maneuver the vehicle by hand. These are quick and easy to use. If your floor is in good condition the vehicle will roll sideways, back or forward with just a gentle push.

A high roof and solid 6″ floor.

to accommodate the latest clear floor hoists you need close to 15′ from floor to ceiling...

A 6″ concrete steel reinforced floor is required to solidly mount the hoists too.

Enough space and facilities.

The workshop floor area needs to accommodate at least 2 hoists ( if specializing)

You may consider 4-6 hoist businesses are the sweet spot for general mechanical repairs and servicing when you have become comfortable with finding quality mechanics to work for you.

Remember to ensure the building is deep enough so you can back each car off the hoist INSIDE the building.

Reception, office, toilets and lunch room need not be big but should be neat and comfortable for workers and customers. A water fountain is a good idea in both reception and lunchroom.

Natural light.

A good natural light source is a huge advantage to your mechanics, especially for examining stains on cylinder blocks left from fluid leaks and other hard to see indicators of underlying faults.

A tiny split or damage to a hose could, if left unnoticed result in engine or gearbox damage. Engineered components like wheel bearings, crankshafts, etc. where the metal surface condition is the first indicator of part failure. All these important visual signs require good natural light.

Good lighting is still one of the major factors missed in auto repair shops. I have insisted on good natural light in all my workshop buildings. The better informed and more experienced mechanics will insist on natural light. Take my word for it and thank me later, as far as I am concerned this is essential to good engineering, and I want the best for my customer!

All walls bright white and at least two coats. I prefer high-quality gloss myself as it is brighter than other surfaces and easier to keep clean.

PERMITS, OIL AND FLUID SYSTEMS, DRAINS ETC.

In most countries, states and territories there are regulations and zones where you can put a workshop.

Make sure of the zoning first on any property you consider leasing or buying.

Ensure you have correct drainage installed in case of large oil spills.

Ensure that you can store volatile chemicals associated with your trade.

Ensure you are able to operate all your machinery legally.

The electricity supply for much workshop equipment is 400 volt 3 phase, ensure it is connected and working properly. Often you will find 3 phase wiring with the polarity changed from plug to plug. This is a darn nuisance and confuses a lot of workshop equipment!

Install air hoses overhead. You don’t want air hoses running across the floor, in the old days' grease was run this way too. If you are working on older cars with grease points install grease overhead too.

Run an overhead waterline as well if you feel you need it for some special jobs you may do. Power points should be well above bench level so they do not get knocked, and you need plenty of them even for a basic workshop.

Buy and maintain an emergency spill kit.

Fit fire extinguishers to a well-constructed plan, ensuring locations will be quick and easy to reach.

Painting the floor.

The workshop floor is very very important. More so than in most businesses as it must withstand stains from dirty thin and hot oil. It happens that spills do occur when doing oil changes, but more about how to stop that happening later.

STANDARD EQUIPMENT.

HOISTS.

NEVER EVEN CONSIDER BUYING A CHEAP HOIST!

I spent two years rebuilding, installing and servicing hoists. The average life of a cheap hoist is around two years before downtime and major repairs. Despite what your equipment supplier says, cheap hoists are dangerous, and when they need rebuilding parts are often not available.

The type of hoists you choose is most important, as it depends on what work you will be doing most, but at least one hoist should be a clear span or clear floor design.

A clear span or clear floor hoist as it is also known, means simply that there is nothing on the floor connecting the two sides of the hoist together.

BENCHES.

I try to use as much wall space as I can for benches, but it does depend on where you decide to get your profit from, which I will discuss later in this hub.

BASIC MECHANIC’S TOOLS.

Hand tools, such as circlip pliers, bearing pullers, ring, and open-end spanners, depending on what you work on this will vary, but need to be incomplete sets. A full range of inside and outside circlip pliers is essential.

Handheld mechanics lamps, air guns, and lines, rolling oil pans, Cooling fluid pans, etc. One set for each hoist.

Other special tools for different makes and models where required, a minimum of two good quality vices. There are many more items, so I will provide a list.

PROFIT CENTRES.

GENERAL WORKSHOP MACHINERY.

TYRE CHANGER

Tire changer accessories

Tire pressure gauge

Air Pressure Regulator

Tire lever

Tire lever protector

WHEEL BALANCER

Wheel balancer accessories

Wheel weight pliers

BRAKE LATHE OFF CAR

BRAKE LATHE ON CAR

Brake lathe accessories

WHEEL ALIGNERS

Wheel ramps

ENGINE ANALYSER.

5 gas suitcase-type if I had to choose. (I have another hub on these.)

HOISTS

1X 2 post symmetric hoist 4-ton capacity (SUV’s, light trucks, and vans)

1X 2 post asymmetric 4-ton capacity

1X 4 post standard hoist preferably with one jacking beam, or…..

1X 4 post alignment hoist with turntable inserts, cover plates, long approach ramp, and 2X jacking beams if you want to include wheel alignment in your workshop.

belly lift quick, small, portable, fast where you want all four wheels of the ground in a hurry to change wheels, brakes, wheel bearings, etc.

motorcycle lift if you do motorcycle engine rebuilds you need one of these.

SPECIALITY WORKSHOP MACHINERY

FLYWHEEL GRINDER

DYNAMOMETER

METAL LATHE

INJECTOR CLEANER

GENERAL WORKSHOP EQUIPMENT

Hose reel, Bench grinder, Compressor, Grease kit, Oil drainage pump, Oil extractor, Jacks

(Bottle, Vehicle positioning, Axle, Trolley, Racing, Long-stroke, Transmission jack

Press, wheel stands, Axle Stands, Ratchet, sockets, Under hoist drainers, Parts washer

Pedestal drill, Pressure washer, Engine Crane, Engine Trolley, Engine stand, Vacuum cleaner

Welding equipment, Wheel dolly, Work trolley, Work benches, mechanics work seat, angle grinder, Creeper, Oil drainer, Vice, Safety Light, Radiator drainer, Filter crusher.

Other handy machinery and tools...

Oscilloscope, Air tools, Impact wrench, Ratchet wrench, air cutter, hand drill, toolbox

Porta power, Car dolly, Oil/water separator

Specialty EQUIPMENT

Body repair kit

Pipe bender

Pulling ram kit

Body straightening kit

Injector cleaner

Sandblasting cabinet

Spring compressor

Brake drum handler

Hydraulic gear puller

Hub tamer

Tire spreader

Cooling system pressure tester

Fuel injection test kit

Pressure brake bleeder

Brake fluid tester

LVT

LPG

GENERAL HAND TOOLS

Measuring tools – calipers

– micrometer

– Dial gauge

– tachometer

tap & die set

Specialty HAND TOOLS

ELECTRONIC TEST EQUIPMENT

Battery

Jump starter/ Tester/ Charger

Multi-meter

Test light

Armature growler

AIR CONDITIONING

Leak detector

SAFETY EQUIPMENT

Goggles

Ear protection

First aid kit

Fire extinguisher

Spill kit

Signage

Oscillating fan

Exhaust extraction reel

Servicing and installations.

Hoist maintenance/ Electrician/ Installation

Lighting design

Electrical equipment testing & tagging

Machinery repair and maintenance.

OTHER EQUIPMENT.

To work on modern cars, you need a good scanner and a 5 gas analyzer, along with many wiring harnesses interface cables for the different makes and models connections to the scanner.

None of this equipment is cheap, because the quality is paramount. I have sold, repaired and serviced both cheap and well designed and built ones. The cheapies will save you a grand or so, but you will regret buying either a scanner or 5 gas analyzer cheap!

There is an equipment list added to this if you are doing petroleum/gas conversions, but it is not usually extensive or expensive.

MORE EQUIPMENT.

If you intend to get a license to test cars for road-worthiness. (This license has different names in some countries) You will also need quite a bit more equipment.

Headlight aimer.

Large vernier calipers.

Compression tester.

Gas analyzer.

The list varies from state to state. country to country.

PROFIT CENTRES.

A workshop that can do everything in-house will attract more customers, and if you cannot do a job because you do not have the necessary equipment or machinery, you need to outsource it.

Never send your customer away, ALWAYS have a solution by using other specialists to do the work for you, then check it thoroughly when it is finished and then add value.

Here are some ways to make your workshop more profitable.

Good disc machining is a matter of tooling up carefully and finishing the surfacing with a fine skim after the cut if needed.

Buy a multi-unit that does the whole job.

Combine with tire sales, or outsource tires. Buy a machine that will do new cars with large wheels.

Equipment is expensive to buy, you need an alignment machine and an alignment hoist like the 4 posts listed above. The profit on wheel alignment is not great generally, but it does attract other sales very well.

If you have all the equipment needed such as a 5 gas analyzer and a gas fitters license there is good money in conversions. Take your time with the re-tuning and calibration.

BEFORE you move your hoists in, you need to know that the floor is level, thick and strong and most important, treated or painted so that the oil does not soak into the concrete and weaken it, especially around the hoist uprights.

Ensure the painted floor surface is skid-proof and smooth to roll equipment on.

Use non-skid paint. You can get one that can be rolled on or sprayed.

If you are removing and replacing components or even doing oil changes, having a clear floor to wheel your equipment around on is safer by a mile, and a lot easier to avoid spills or gearboxes falling of the gearbox hoist because it fell over when it hit the obstruction which is on all other types of hoist.

If you are doing suspension replacements and repairs, you will need a four-post hoist with inbuilt hydraulic ram for lifting the wheels off the hoist.

The same hoist should be ordered with rotating wheel alignment plates built-in if doing wheel alignments as well.

Buy a high-quality brake lathe and learn how to use it. Your equipment supplier should be able to train you or your mechanic in using the equipment they sell.

AIR-CONDITIONING REPAIRS.

TIRE CHANGING, WHEEL BALANCING.

WHEEL ALIGNMENT.

LPG CONVERSIONS.

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When preparing for an overland journey, buying the right vehicle is only half the job done. To survive a great traverse between several countries in Africa, knowing how to drive a × vehicle may be just as important.

I remember buying our ’91 Land Rover Defender (named Maggie) in 009 and spending a good half a day running through a huge checklist with the previous owners. High on my list was practising off-roading, using the differential lock, and low range gears.

At the time, all of this was a blur, and if I am completely honest, I was nervous to ever engage Maggie in locking the differential . When I did my first overland journey from London to South Africa in 010, I learnt how to drive Maggie off road by experimenting. I learnt how to deal with recovery situations the hard way: by making mistakes and learning from them.

But if I could do it all over again, I definitely would have enrolled in a × training course to be sure I had the skills to make it there and back safely.

Why do a × training course?

There are many × skills needed when overlanding a continent like Africa, where road conditions can sometimes get really difficult. Some skills, like recovery, might only be needed a handful of times – or not at all if you’re lucky!

But to be confident in your ability to avoid or recover from difficult situations, with minimal risk of injury or damage to the vehicle, the right level of training is important.

Luckily for us, on our current overland journey from Botswana to Ethiopia, we found a course at the × Training Academy in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. For R1,00 (approx US$81) per person, we participated in a day-long basic to intermediate × training.

Marilu, Brent our instructor and Noel (Maggie in the background)

How to choose a × training course

There are thousands of × training courses to choose from around the world. It’s definitely advisable to find an operator with solid reviews and recommendations. However, finding the best one will depend on what you want to get out of the experience.

For us, the most important aspect we looked for in a training course was whether the instructor could teach us how to use our own vehicle, not just any ×. What we liked about our experience with the × training academy was that our instructor Brent knew and understood Land Rovers, and focused on giving clients practical skills to use in their own vehicles.

What do you learn during × training?

If your training course is like ours, the first few hours will be spent in front of a screen, learning the basics of × operation. Topics included:

The purpose and operation of the differential lock (when to use high and low range gears);

Types of suspension systems and the impact on a vehicle’s ability to clear obstacles;

The importance of traction and momentum in clearing common obstacles and road conditions; and

The basics of a tyre and what the codes written on the tyre actually translate to

After a couple of hours of classroom instruction, we were ready to do something practical and get our hands dirty. And boy, oh boy, did we get dirty!

Getting dirty on our × training day

× Lesson Using a Hi-lift Jack

The first thing we were shown was how to use our Hi-Lift Jack to change a tyre on our Land Rover. Until this moment, our Hi-Lift Jack was little more than decoration on our Land Rover, to improve our rugged image. And we were both too worried that without knowing how to use the Hi-Lift Jack, we might kill ourselves – it’s a dangerous tool and could do you some serious damage if used incorrectly!

After a good dose of WD-0, our Hi-Lift Jack was working like magic and we learnt the proper way to use her to lift our Landy. Here is our summary of practical tips and lessons learnt:

Practise using your Hi-Lift Jack before a real-life recovery situation – again, this is a dangerous tool that can cause injury!

If you don’t know how to use a Hi-Lift Jack, it may be better to use another easy and safe option, such as an Air Jack.

Make sure that the Hi-Lift Jack is well oiled and free from rust – if not, use WD-0 for lubrication.

Insert the Hi-Lift Jack into the jacking points, which should be welded firmly to the vehicle chassis.

When jacking the Hi-Lift up or down, avoid placing your head between the arm and the shaft – if the arm snaps back while jacking, it could cause injury to the head!

Practical × Lesson – The importance of deflating tyres when driving off road

Tyre Compressor

Our first team exercise was lowering Maggie’s tyres by 50% less air.

Why were we asked to this?  Well, we learnt that the less air pressure you have in your tyres, the more the surface of the tyre you have to the ground to grab the rock or dirt that you’re trying to ascend/descend.  It makes a lot of sense when explained that way, we did learn a few lessons because of this;

.1 Ensure that you have a Tyre pressure gauge with you to be able to know what the pressure is of your tyres

. Have a Tyre compressor that allows you to inflate your tyres after you have deflated them for driving off road

. Know what your tyre pressure is for driving tarred roads, ours is . Bar and this will help you quickly reduce/inflate to a pressure suitable for your condition

Practical × Lesson – Understanding how to drive off road in low range Diff locked

We learnt on the day that both the vehicles axles are permanently driven from the vehicles transfer gearbox, which is bolted on to the rear of the main gearbox.

With this system you only have two levers; The normal gear lever which is used for changing gear as you would in any other car and a smaller gear lever that controls the locking differential (see image below).

With the differential locked, the centre differential is locked (not the axle differentials unless you fit this aftermarket).

To understand this in a practical setting we drove a number of difficult loops that allowed us to understand how Maggie  performs when driving in Diff locked low range.

Based on rocky/dirt/muddy ascents/descents I will now always drive Maggie using her in Diff locked low range.  In terms of lessons learnt;

.1 Get to know your vehicle off road and test how your vehicle drives in Diff locked low range.  Climbing a steep rocky hill in our vehicle was easier in 1st gear whilst attempting the same hill in nd gear we ended up stalling.  Our instructor Brent in his Toyota climbed the same hill using nd gear with no issues.

. Walk the route you are about to drive.  This may not always be straight forward to do, but if you are able to, it will give you a mental map of the terrain, where the tricky sections might be and allow you to prepare a chosen path which may not be necessarily easy on a blind first attempt.

. Another important reason for locking the centre diff is hills. If you’re stopped or reversing down a properly steep hill or one with little traction then without the centre diff locked you will find that the front wheels will lock up, and the rears will continue to rotate.  We tried this while trying to ascend a hill, I stalled Maggie and was shown how to safely reverse.  Halfway up the hill, I held Maggie on the footbrake, I then engaged reverse gear and let the clutch and brake out together. Maggie was held stationary by the gears, at which point I then started her engine, in gear, and reversed back down the hill under control, it was scary but a great lesson learned.

Practical × Lesson – Learn how to recover your vehicle from being stuck in the mud

Our final exercise of the day was to drive through a muddy section and see if I could get through without getting stuck..Brent our instructor had a grin on his face as we got stuck good and proper!  Marilu and I were both tired from the day’s training but this exercise was a great lesson to both of us that we had to remain calm and clear with our thoughts if this were to happen while we were out on our overland trip. We learnt a number of lessons during this exercise;

.1 Ensure that there is one designated person who is the lead.  Why?  As there could be many voices in a difficult situation and having someone in control allows for clearer communication during a challenging task.

. Have sufficient tow ropes for different purposes.  We learnt when to use a Kinetic rope or snatch strap rope versus a tow strap.  Using the Kinetic stretching property allows the strap to store kinetic energy which allows for vehicles to be pulled out from muddy bogs.

. As the vehicle to be towed, ensure that your vehicle is engaged in the gear that you need to drive out of the situation to ensure you have some momentum when the recover vehicle begins to move forward.

We managed to get towed successfully and after that we had finished our day’s training.  The day was long and tiring but we both gained an increased confidence in our driving skills off road.  The key thing here is do everything in your own vehicle, as Brent mentioned in the morning, if you don’t have a bond already to your vehicle, you will at the end of the course!

  Noel and Brent attempting the first of many exercises during the day

We thoroughly enjoyed our × training with Brent and learnt a hell of a lot in a small space of time.  My recommendation is that you find a reputable company near to where you are before you start your overlanding adventure, you won’t regret it.

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10 Things I Know

(Automobiles/Racing)

           The vibrations are getting more fierce, the feel of the adrenaline pumping through you is starting to become more obvious, your hand is shaking as it holds the shift knob awaiting the countdown of the lights, you rev the motor to a precise RPM, and that’s when the light turns green. You quickly adjust your footing as you mash down the gas pedal, spinning wheels, shredding rubber, and launching into the world of racing. This moment is what I live for, the thrill, the nervousness, and courage that one feels as they know they have sunk their life savings into a beautiful machine, the race is on! That being said, the world is a fast paced environment where we all want to be first. You see it every day in common situations, merging onto the highway, overtaking the slow person driving in the fast lane, and trying to get to work or school on time. This is nothing new because the want to go faster and faster in such a short time (a little over 130 years), has been something that anyone with the “need for speed” will be obsessed with. In the next few minutes I am going to go over a little bit of the Automotive Industry and Racing History and talk about how the automotive industry has influenced the world in many ways as well as how it has attracted many different types of people from Artists to IT Professionals, from Photographers to Gamers and so on. So buckle up, strap yourself in, and prepare yourself for an inside look of the Automotive Industry, racing, and the passion I have for the history that many may not know about.

           I’m sure we’ve all built something before to help us achieve things that without the invention or innovation, would be really hard or tedious to complete. Throughout history, we have invented, developed, and created tools to help us achieve the unimaginable.  From pulley systems that helped build the Great Pyramids in Egypt, to boats that transported people and items from country to country, to Airplanes that do the same in half the time than by sea. One invention that has evolved so much, in so many ways, in such a short time, has been the automobile. The automobile started back in the 15th century but as you’re probably thinking, there were no motors invented at that time and you are correct. What they used back then were horse and buggies which later automobiles were based off of, which included an extra axle, four wheels instead of two, and a steam powered motor to start. I say to start because it was not until 1885 when Karl Benz of Germany invented the first gas-powered automobile and by the next year in 1886, he had the technology patented. I’m sure glad he did because the smell of burning gas is what drives my passion still to this day, I couldn’t imagine steam being the source of power and blowing out billows of water as I race around the track. All of your senses come into play when racing, the smell of gasoline, the vibrations of the car, the taste of victory in your mouth, and the sound of the powerful 1000+ horsepower vehicle is what really gets me excited.

           Now trains were powered by steam which involves a lot of it to move the heavy vehicle, so I guess the power is still there, but not as manageable as gasoline. While the first forms of the car were powered by steam, the want to go faster needed a little more power which steam could not achieve. Discovering oil, which in turn made gas, we quickly learned about air/fuel combustion and tuning the mixture either by the ECU computer or a manual carburetor. Gasoline can combust a lot stronger than pressurized steam can. This opened up a world of possibilities for different designs of the motor. These different designs included gas powered engines that combust by air/fuel mixing within a cylinder wall being pressurized and combusting by a piston. Diesel motors act in the same way but usually involve forced induction like a turbo to achieve the same power with usually a lot more torque due to different chemical reaction from diesel as to gasoline. With the added punch of a turbocharger, it helps gain more power using less gasoline(diesel or regular). There is also this crazy design from a guy named Felix Wankel who had a slightly different idea using the same physics. He created what we today call the Rotary Engine which is another internal combustion engine that instead of having pistons that rotate, the crankcase rotates instead of the crank itself. Mazda Motor Co. still uses these motors today in cars like the Mazda RX-7 and the Mazda RX-8 along with other race car manufactures.

           Automobiles were designed to move people place to place, haul goods and items for delivery, and migrating to new places quicker than walking, less damaging to wildlife like horseback riding, and less tiring. The want to get goods and people to other places faster was an instant obsession. Shortly after Karl Benz invented the first gas-powered automobile, came auto-racing. In 1895 they hosted the first race which was 1,178KM (731 Miles) from Paris to Bordeaux, France. America was not far behind in the race to racing, but deciding to race cars came from a slightly different reason. Alcohol Prohibition really parked the American “Need for Speed”. Getting illegal spirits from place to place needed to be done quickly to avoid being caught by US Marshalls and was usually done overnight. With officials quickly catching on to the overnight moves, this caused bootleggers like Junior Johnson and Raymond Parks to move spirits during all hours including during the day. It wasn’t until one day when they were being followed by US Marshalls that they decided to make a run for it which created Americas first race, and it was a race against time. They needed to quickly evade the Marshalls and disappear into the woods to ensure a proper getaway. It was from then on that the want and need to be quicker than anyone and everyone started which in turn, created NASCAR.

           Racing has been a big deal ever since those ol’ bootleggin’ days. From Circuit Racing to Drag Racing, from Rally Racing to Endurance Racing, the race was on! The culture has grown so much since then. All walks of life are now interested in cars and racing them. In the last 50 years or so, the culture has created so many sub-genres of cars. From Drag cars to Drift cars, from Lowriders to Off-Road Rock Crawlers, the culture has attracted everyone. With the car culture growing rapidly, the need for the public to be familiarized required the skills of writers and journalist, radio jockeys and photographers, videographers and musicians, to all come together which created what we call today “Car Meets”. Car Meets are where anyone with a car no matter what kind it is, can come together and show off all their hard work. Unless otherwise stated in which there are a lot of, personalized meets like Volkswagen Meets, Honda Days, Nissans Only, etc. This allows so many people to come together like Food Vendors who provide food at the meet, musicians or DJs that provide the music, Car sponsor companies that sell apparel and parts, and even Police officers that control traffic and ensure a safe environment for everyone attending. Telling a car enthusiast from a non-enthusiast is becoming harder by the day unless you see them on the road. He/She could be your accountant, your doctor, lawyer, teacher, anyone really. Even the Movie companies couldn’t hold off and that’s how we got movies like Fast and the Furious… all 8 of them… so far.

           In time, the automobile is going to change even more and more dramatically. Already we are seeing the use of manual transmissions disappear and same with the need of fuel only engines which has birthed Hybrid motors which utilize electronic propulsion as well as the power from gas combustion. We are recreating and redesigning a lot of aspects of the automobile which in turn, is going to change the way we race. Only time will tell and the possibilities will continue to grow. People every day are becoming more infatuated with the car scene which has grown the demand of many people from very different professions. Which one are you? The engineer building the engines? The IT Computer guy tuning the Engines Electronic Computer Unit? The Artist drawing and designing the next Concept car? Or are you the Driver behind the wheel who is a father, husband, brother, etc? Anyone and everyone can be involved, you just have to figure out what and who you are and where your passion lies. But together, we can create amazing things. Hopefully one day, I will see you at the track. Until then, be safe, have fun, and remember… SAFETY FIRST! RACE ON!

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Master of metal: Royal Enfield Electra 350 by J&D Custom

The past few years have seen a big change in the way a lot of custom motorcycles are created. Technology is everywhere, with many builders now using computer-aided modeling and machining to create and replicate parts faster and more accurately.

But some builders prefer to keep the traditional craft alive. In the USA guys like Craig Rodsmith and Max Hazan are wizards with traditional tools, and in India, we have Jay D. Patel of J&D Custom Co.—the builder of this raw and beautiful Electra 350.

Based in Vadodara, a city in western India, Jay eschews digital assistants and sticks to decades-old methods of craftmanship.

“I’ve called the bike ‘Handmade,’ because I hand-built everything from scratch, apart from the the engine and wheels,” he tells us.

Jay’s father owns an engineering workshop, and that’s where Jay learnt fabrication and other technical skills. The litmus test was restoring his dad’s Land Rover Defender: “One of the greatest experience of my lifetime! It taught me a lot of lessons.”

Jay quickly moved on to building custom motorcycles from scratch, and first caught our eyes about three years ago with his ‘Baroda Bobber,’ based on a Royal Enfield Thunderbird 350.

He’s now honed his skills still further with this compact and elegant Bullet Electra, which was RE’s best-selling model for many years.

“The concept for this bike was to showcase the true craftsmanship of building,” says Jay, “without ‘layering it’ or hiding anything. Whatever I have learned in the past five years, I have tried to implement in this build. It’s a pure labor of love, representing the era of motorcycle development in small garages—without any high tech tools or software.”

For bike builders, it’s critical to have clients who are ‘on the same page,’ and Jay got lucky with the guy who commissioned this bike. “He follows the same work and design philosophy as me,” says Jay. “He’s a well known architect and designer who works with brass and wood, and admires hand-built things the most.”

He approached Jay after seeing the Baroda Bobber build. “We decided to do the next expression of that build, using my improved skills to achieve better results in terms of craftsmanship.”

This is Jay’s first full-frame build, and he’s used 304 seamless stainless steel tubing. “I did some research and made a frame jig to perfectly align the frame,” he recalls. “But as I was used to working without professional tools, I ended up only using the jig for joining the neck to the front rail.”

While crafting the frame, Jay started figuring out the dimensions for a springer fork setup. “It was my dream to build a springer front end: I wanted to spend a good amount of time to make it perfect in the working sense, as well as aesthetics,” he says.

Luckily, Jay got it close to perfect in his very first attempt, and he reckons it’s the most beautiful part of the build. It’s also made out of 304 stainless steel, with the springs coming from a local specialist, built to Jay’s specs.

Then Jay started working on the shape of the tank, splitting the unit into two portions, to make it easier to hide electrical items and the battery.

The left side portion is the actual fuel cell, which can hold around six liters (1.6 gallons), while the other half is a cover to hide all the electrical gear. There’s a pop-up gas cap to keep the lines clean, and the fuel petcock is an antique item that Jay found on Amazon.

For the rear portion of the frame, Jay wanted to try something different to the usual hardtail frame. After figuring out the curves and axle plate placement, he cut the backbone and grafted on two rear pipes. It’s a simple and seamless look.

The arc welding is just as neat. “I tried to make every weld perfect, so that I don’t need to grind them to look good. I just left the welds as they are, to look real raw.”

To keep the bars clean, Jay has used an internal throttle assembly and inverted clutch cable setup. “But since I was using an internal throttle, it wasn’t possible to use an inverted lever for the front brake setup,” says Jay. “And hydraulic brakes can’t work that way. So I decided to link both the front and rear brake operations using a single foot pedal.”

Jay used a perimeter disc brake setup for the Baroda Bobber, which he believes is the only one of its kind in India—as well as unique for an Enfield. So he’s replicated the setup on the Electra, to give the build a signature touch.

Jay has also made the hand and foot controls, using aluminum and a lathe. The velocity stack air filter is made out of a solid bar of aluminum too.

The 19-inch wheels are one of the few stock fitments, and the exhaust is an original Enfield part too. “I just love the flow of the stock bend pipe,” Jay explains. “I had to cut it in the middle and re-join it at a specific angle to match the lower frame lines, though.”

We love the understated style of this machine, and the way it has been crafted bit-by-bit, without so much as a Photoshop sketch beforehand. “I don’t work with renders or drawings,” says Jay. “I do that process in my head, and start putting elements together one by one, to achieve the final design.”

It’s a brave builder who leaves his bikes unpainted, but Jay has the skills to pull it off. “For me it shows the craftsmanship of the builder. There are no layers of filler or anything, and you can see all the joints, welds, bends and lines.”

We’re all for pushing the boundaries of modern tech, but we also love to see that traditional skills are alive and well too—a refreshing touch of analog warmth in an increasingly digital world.

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• A boxer should quit at the top, as they say. But that’s complicated. There are plenty of people in boxing who make money out off you. And they tell you that you’ve still got it, that it’s still getting better. – Lennox Lewis • A good trader loves an active market, you don’t make money when the market is static. – Kevin Kinsella • A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be. – Deepak Chopra • A lot of artists just put on the people they can make money off of. – Donnis • A lot of people now make a living off of YouTube. It’s the world’s most popular video site by far, it’s a subsidiary by Google. Increasingly, Google seems to be letting politics dictate who is allowed to make money from the platform. – Tucker Carlson • a man can radically change his life and attain to a deeper meaning, a more perfect integration, a more complete fulfillment, a more total liberty of spirit than are possible in the routines of a purely active existence centered on money-making. – Thomas Merton • After the first one [Twilight Saga movie], as soon as people start referring to something as a franchise. A franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It’s not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. That’s how they refer to it. They love it when something has become a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it’s scary. – Robert Pattinson • Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I’m 53 now and won’t be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry – another reason why I’m thinking about living in California. – Gary Numan • All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. – Paul Auster • All the interesting films are now being made by their subsidiaries for very low budgets. But the studios are not making money. They’re making these big, very expensive pictures that take a lot of money but don’t really pay for their costs. So they’re having a very difficult time. I can see the system breaking down. I think the American studios are a reflection or a metaphor for American industry altogether, which is failing in the world. Its economic domination is being broken down and I think the same thing is happening to the studios. – John Boorman • American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money. – Ludwig von Mises • Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money. – Miles Davis • Americans like to make money, Canadians like to count it. – Northrop Frye • Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don’t know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status. – Northrop Frye • An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want the future more than the present. Whenever you want the future more than you want the present, true intelligence cannot flow into what you do, because it can do so only when you are totally aligned with the present moment. – Eckhart Tolle • Any skills that I have, I couldn’t really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine – the getting down and getting nitty – gritty. – Ian Harding • Anybody who’s putting out records is probably not making money at it. – Alan Sparhawk • As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money and/or advance their position or place in life there can be a lot to weigh and consider, such as responsibilities, goals and objectives etc. We all make choices, deal with our sense of priorities, principles, ethics, morals, balancing, juggling, making compromises… or not! Ha! – Axl Rose • As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom. – Adam McKay • As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue. – David Korten • At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, “I’m out of here! What are you doing to me?” He thought he wouldn’t be involved in that kind of stuff for the rest of his life. He just wanted to make money. He was one of those people who took over the family responsibility. His own father was pretty irresponsible with money and borrowed from people all the time. – Paul Laffoley • At one point, for example, [Donald Trump] argued that he knew much more than military leaders about the pursuit and defeat of ISIS. His assuredness of his own correctness seems also rooted in arrogance reflecting his fundamental insecurity. This insecurity and his belief in his own rightness, when combined with his success at making money, leads him to be self-reliant in his decision-making, which could result in his taking risks with threatening or using nuclear weapons. – David Krieger • At the core of an analytical edge is an ability to systematically distinguish between fundamentals and expectations. Fundamentals are a well thought out distribution of outcomes, and expectations are what’s priced into an asset. A power metaphor is the [pari-mutuel] racetrack. The fundamentals are how fast a given horse will run and the expectations are the odds on the tote board. As any serious handicapper knows, you make money only by finding a mispricing between the performance of the horse and the odds. There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ horses, just correctly or incorrectly priced ones. – Michael Mauboussin

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Money', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_money').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_money img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don’t worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position. – Rocco DiSpirito • Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging. – Val Kilmer • Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones. – Joe Bastianich • Both Donald Trump and the Democrats have said terrible things about the healthcare companies. If healthcare companies think they can make money in the US, the rest of the world will go along for the ride. At the end of the day, we may not like the cost of healthcare, but it’s going to be pretty dang hard to contain it. – John Manley • Both of my parents were incredibly supportive of me being in any arts, because they were both in the arts. They weren’t the typical story of, “Oh, get a real job. You need to make money.” They basically said, “Yup, be an artist. You’ll be broke your whole life but you’ll be happy.” – Aya Cash • Boxing is a business. I have been in the professional game for five years now – I’m not doing it for nothing. I am doing it so I can provide for my future family, so I can have a future. I am here to make money. And at the same time I’m the most exciting fighter in Britain, if not the world, in my opinion. I don’t know anybody else in the game that does the things I do in the ring. – Chris Eubank, Jr. • Boxing is a business. I’m not going to say I would never work with people again because we have had disagreements in the past. So if it makes money it makes sense. That doesn’t mean we won’t agree again in the future. – Chris Eubank, Jr. • Business skills, when well applied, can do more than just make money. They can potentially make money and do some real good, which is immensely satisfying. To do that, it’s important to think outside the box, take risks, and be an entrepreneur. – Jeffrey Skoll • But if I didn’t have to make money, I would still play my horn. – Sonny Rollins • But it’s a blessing to be so successful within a year; it’s the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I’m doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I’m doing. – Ludacris

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• Children are the ultimate investment of all of those that want to make money, to sell, to dominate. So there are two meanings. They are our ultimate investment for anyone who is honest and ethical and loving, but also for all the commerce. – Laura Huxley • Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can’t derive this by fundamental analysis – you must think biologically. – Charlie Munger • Concentrate on your money. Try to hold your paper. It takes money to make money, so save your money, opportunites come. – Curtis Jackson • Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money. – Benjamin Carson • Define your own success: If you’re going after a million bucks with your own startup, you’ve already failed yourself. Instead, do something because it’s interesting, challenging, it offers you the chance to learn something new or gives you the chance to work with really interesting people. Most startups that are designed to make money, especially in this environment, don’t. – Tara Hunt • Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. – Walt Disney • Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all. – Peter Singer • Do something you like that you feel is important. Don’t worry about making money at it right away. If you try hard and long enough you will figure out a way to do it. Better to die happy than die rich. – Peter Menzel • Don’t get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life. – Darren Johnson • Don’t go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy. – Marianne Williamson • Don’t just make money, make a difference. – Grant Cardone • Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. – George Burns • Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way. – Bob Seger • Every person has a talent, but not the same one. Every person has to discover his personal talent and go with his talent. And then you are you, and what you do, you do because you love what you do, not because you want to be famous or because you’re making money. You do the work because you love it. – Alejandro Jodorowsky • Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain’t no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did. – Tupac Shakur • Everybody who’s making the movies needs to work hard to make sure they’re good. And if you don’t show up and see the movies and support them financially, no one is going to make them. It’s going to change unless it makes money. That’s the long and short of it. You have to give in to the fact that it’s a business. – Paul Feig • Everyday I wake up I’m fulfilling my dream. Every day my manager calls I’m fulfilling my dream. I know if my manager doesn’t call I’m not making money so when he does call I know I’m making money. – Yung Joc • Facebook has been around for seven years. It has 500 million users. If you can’t figure out how to make money off half a billion people in seven years, I’m going to go out on a limb and say you’re unlikely to ever do. – David Heinemeier Hansson • FACT: You CAN make money doing what you love! Even in a down economy! – Walt F. J. Goodridge • Film and TV is a very hard profession to enter into if you don’t have the ability to take a long period of time without making money so you can write, direct or raise financing, or work your way up, often with unpaid internships. It’s hard to get into without a lot of connections. You end up with a lot of white people from privilege making films. So we’re seeing a lot of the same kinds of stories. – Sarah Polley • First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I’m other things… But I didn’t play drums to make money. – Ringo Starr • Folk music isn’t owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It’s our common property. There is nobody’s name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It’s not copywritten. – Utah Phillips • For a ridiculous analogy, let’s take Purple Rain. If you were to put Purple Rain and The Sound of Music on the desk of a producer, he or she would know that the majority of moviegoers would rather listen to Prince. Since they are in the business of making money, no one can blame them. But if it ever came to the decision of making a film like that I’d say, “No.” They are very easy films to make, though. In Purple Rain there is nothing complex about the way that they dance. Or sing. It would be a bit boring for an adult to make that film. It just wouldn’t test their métier. – Gene Kelly • For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies. – Jackie Chan • For me, film has been good because I’m able to work at top crack, working at something I love to do, in the only literary form in which you can still make money. There are no famous novelists, not as novelists used to be famous. – William Monahan • For people whose job it is to make sure we make money, there’s a lot of pressure. – Anna Kendrick • For those interested in learning more about corporations and private individuals profiting from the caging of human beings, I highly recommend the book “Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money From Mass Incarceration.” – Michelle Alexander • Go have fun and make money – James Victore • Going shopping all the time. Just making money, and competing with the niggas in other neighborhoods. And the whole competition with the girls – who had the prettiest girlfriend – and going partying. It was just on. It was fun! – The Notorious B.I.G. • Good money management alone isn’t going to increase your edge at all. If your system isn’t any good, you’re still going to lose money, no matter how effective your money management rules are. But if you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure. – Monroe Trout • Google AdWords help with targeting people. Social media makes it easy to find people. A lot of people write blogs as a hobby. Others do it to make money. Instead of advertising on a blog, do a revenue share where you give them a 10-percent share for the business you receive. – Cameron Johnson • High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that’s wrong. – Willard C. Butcher • Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don’t make money, you’re to blame. Your job is to make money. – Orson Welles • Hollywood is a business and movie studios are only going to do what’s going to make money. It’s not an altruistic thing. They are blatant grabs for money. Responsible studios want to make quality pictures, but at the same time nobody is going to make quality pictures they know aren’t going to make any money. – Paul Feig • How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money? – Rebecca Goldstein • I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do? – Bill Gates • I always knew I’d go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school. – Rachel Nichols • I always remember my dad saying, “No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it.” It was not an honorable thing to do. – Sofia Coppola • I always tell students that the first question to ask about any historical action is this: who makes money out of the deal? – Carl R Trueman • I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of. – Joel Osteen • 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. – Harvey S. Firestone • I cannot afford to waste my time making money – Louis Agassiz • I can’t draw a stick person. I can’t play a musical instrument. But I’ve always had a knack for making money. – Tilman J Fertitta • I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money. – Anne Robinson • I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect. – Stanley Donwood • I come from making money in the streets. The streets all I know. All my family is still in the streets. So, it’s going to be hard to pull me right back into that. When I ain’t doing no shows four days out of the week, I may be in my hood or at my grandma’s house in the hood. But yes, I got a kid. I got to get more serious about the music so he don’t get dragged into that life. – Shy Glizzy • I could be an alternative comic. I could be that really dark – I was – I was a very dark comic to begin with. I could be that guy, and the only reason I didn’t is that I wanted to make money. I wanted to be popular. I wanted to be liked more than I wanted to be admired. – Louie Anderson • I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward poverty : “As an artist, you don’t make money.” I had to figure out some kind of way to guarantee that I’d be able to continue doing the work that I wanted to do, whether I made money from the work I was doing or not. – Kerry James Marshall • I didn’t think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising. – Liev Schreiber • I don’t buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They’re basically stealing someone’s image in order to make money for themselves… They wait at the end of my street in their cars. Every time I exit my home, I have company. – Ashton Kutcher • I don’t have any ego about it, but I find there’s not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you’re dead. – Norm MacDonald • I don’t have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it. – Michael Birch • I don’t hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards that. If he stops – he’s full of crap, you know. I mean, I wouldn’t do it, for no money, or for no place in the white man’s world. Not just to make money, because then you don’t have anything. You don’t have as much money as whoever you’re trying to ape; that’s making money by being commercial. Then you don’t have anything to give the world; so you’re not important. You might as well be dead. – Miles Davis • I don’t like people telling other people what to do. Sex work for a lot of women is really important, especially in countries where women don’t have a lot of power. Here we can have at least some form … of making money. – Margaret Cho • I don’t make music to make money. I make music because that’s what I like to do. You would think, “Yeah, of course, that’s what an artist does,” but there ain’t too many artists around anymore. I see a lot of people who, if they thought they wouldn’t profit, would find an easier hustle. It’s a racket now, like everything else, but we’re in a capitalistic country – everything’s a racket. Take what you can. I think the difference between that line of thinking and me is obvious. – Del tha Funkee Homosapien • I don’t need to make money destroying my environment. Why don’t I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable? – Ian Somerhalder • I don’t need to publish anything to make a living, so to speak, and I think it is much more important to spread information about our European religion than it is to make money from doing so. – Varg Vikernes • I don’t think I have ever learnt a difficult lesson. Probably sports betting, which I have lost money on. I did lose money on Apple. You’d have thought you could only make money on Apple but I was one of the people who managed to lose. – Giles Coren • I don’t understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn’t give it away. I have nothing against blogs. I don’t have a problem with them. But it’s like, ‘What are you doing? Why aren’t you working? – Frank Deford • I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference. – Lady Gaga • I don’t worry about alienating fans. I don’t think most people these days think of artists as sellouts if they license their music for a commercial or a movie trailer. If anything, fans get psyched when they hear Sleigh Bells on TV or at the movies. As a band who doesn’t make money off of record sales it’s a great way for us to pay the bills! – Alexis Krauss • I feel like my perception has changed a little because when I was posting stuff online it was an extension of my studio and then it started getting some of the attention. Now it’s like, “Oh, this is actually a place where you can make money,” but I’m not interested in competing in that space. It seems like too much to deal with. – Kalup Linzy • I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons – to make money, to be in the company of my friends – and also to hook up with young girls. I always knew, even before I played in piano bars, about the effect of my voice. – Andrea Bocelli • I got a reputation for being sort of nuts and difficult, because I was at that point, so I wasn’t much in demand. And also, on the basic level, I’d made a lot of movies that didn’t make money. And if you make movies that don’t make money – I mean, it is a business, after all – you are not in demand. – Margot Kidder • I have resigned from the professional undertaking of coin flipping. I am not here to tell you where gold’s going to be. I have no idea. That’s my existentialism. I am a student of uncertainty, I have no idea where the stock market is going to be. So when I am creating trades in my portfolio for my clients, I am agnostic. I just want to enhance the probability that I make money come what may. – Hugh Hendry • I have ways of making money that you know nothing of. – John D. Rockefeller • 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. – Terry McAuliffe • I just came back from – with Trump when I endorsed him in Iowa, in Marshalltown, a little town – 27,000 – have a lot of Hispanics working there from Mexico in a private business, so they’re still here. I’m not saying they’re here illegally but they still come and they work, make money for their families, send the money back to Mexico or whatever, so it’s a big problem. – Joe Arpaio • I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question. – Ryan Tedder • I like making money like anybody else, and I’m paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base. – Tom Petty • I live by ‘Earnin’ and burnin’.’ Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That’s the way I live my life. – Will Ferrell • I love making money, but you can’t live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically. – Julianna Margulies • I make money from touring and selling merchandise, and I honestly believe if you put effort into something and you execute properly, you don’t necessarily have to go through the traditional ways. – Chance the Rapper • I met some people who showed me a path in music where they were like hey, look, while yes, it can have to do with being popular and making money, it DOESN’T have to be. – Chuck Ragan • I never ask if the market is going to go up or down because I don’t know, and besides it doesn’t matter. I search nation after nation for stocks, asking: ‘Where is the one that is lowest-priced in relation to what I believe it’s worth?’ Forty years of experience have taught me you can make money without ever knowing which way the market is going. – John Templeton • I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. – Warren Buffett • I read a lot, and I think it’s important to stay current on the new health kicks. Some are out there just to make money, but some are really worth investigating and incorporating into our diets. – Jennifer Aniston • I realized you can always make money; you just do a lot of things. – Mary Harron • I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn’t write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that’s where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing. – Dean Koontz • I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a novelist fail to take off. As I started to try on journalism, including doing internships and working at the campus paper, I found I actually liked it. So I started to want to be a journalist. – Kevin Maney • I spent my twenties not really participating in the work force in any real way. I acted a tiny bit, but that was just because it was the only way I knew how to make money, and I sublet my apartment and lived in the woods and just tried to figure out who I was and what I wanted, what my real desire was and not just what I was used to doing, and it was a really confusing and painful, but really rich and amazing time. – Gaby Hoffmann • I talked to people that I’d done theater with, older actors and stuff. There’s a lot of people who go into the business, and they must think they’re good, or they wouldn’t be in it. Why do you think that you’re good enough to go into the business and make money at it? So I really wanted to ask myself that question a lot. Because it was an important kind of thing that I was going to do. I really wanted to do it, I loved it, and I thought that I was good enough that I could make money at it. And that’s really what it came down to. – Dean Norris • I think at the end of the day you can do both: make money and stay true to yourself. But a lot of young people look for that fame that some of these huge artists that they see on TV have, not knowing they can do what some of these underground artist are doing which is not selling their souls for a buck. – Rahki • I think cyber security, cyber warfare will be one of the biggest challenges facing the next president, because clearly we’re facing at this point two different kinds of adversaries. There are the independent hacking groups that do it mostly for commercial reasons to try to steal information that they can use to make money. – Hillary Clinton • I think every filmmaker in Europe would be lying if they didn’t say one day they just wanted to make a movie here in Hollywood or at least try it. It’s very different from European filmmaking, because here it’s like a real industry. It’s very much about money and making money, which I think is fine, because it’s very expensive to make movies. – Baran Odar • I think in a way nobody doesn’t work anymore. Even moms who say, ‘I am out of the workforce.’ They may be writing mommy blogs with no expectation of making money, but they are building an onramp for when they do go back. – Suzy Welch • I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive person, the artist, the impressionable person, the person whose raison d’etre is to incarnate the creative will, rather than to just make money, and yet that extreme difficulty that the culture poses for us has created some of the best artists in the last hundred years. – Hubert Selby, Jr. • I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book ‘Shock Doctrine.’ We make money on disaster. – Henry Rollins • I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans than the Democratic Party. I mean, the incentives seem to be set up to allow people – as long as you have a band of a few million fanatical followers, you can make money. The Democrats have managed to figure out how not to do that. – Ann Coulter • I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean ‘make money’ you need to be part of the machine unless you’re one of those superhuman people who can do everything by yourself, and have workaholic tendencies and really good advisers and a good investor. – Sia Furler • I think that’s really really important, you can’t get in the industry, because you want to make money because number one, I don’t think money should be motivation for anything because I don’t believe that it has any value. – Jhene Aiko • I think you think that phone sex is about getting the caller off, but it’s about keeping the caller on. It’s about leading with your personality and making sure that they’re still listening to you and that they’re still interested in you because you cannot make money when they hang up. – Gabourey Sidibe • I thought, you know, I can sit at home in my La-Z-Boy, on Facebook, and reach more people than I can on a tour. Because I reach 30,000 to 40,000 people for every Facebook post, some even reach 50,000 to 60,000. And I thought, if it’s about reaching people, and not about making money, why bother touring? – Mark Lowry • I try to build on our management philosophy. I try to understand what the threats and opportunities are for us. Uh, I try to make sure that we’re driving innovation and creative destruction hard enough so we’re not blindsided, and that our attitude is to, in starting any initiative, any business, is to focus on how we can create value for others, rather than how we maximize profit, because you can make money focusing on, “How do I maximize profit?” – Charles Koch • I turn down invitations to do things for money. I have almost no interest in making money. Actually, I’ve acquired a fair amount of money that I will never live to spend. So earning money, in a way, depresses me, because I feel it’s just piling up. – Joyce Carol Oates • I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money. – Dennis Rodman • I want the pleasures of the real exploitation movie, and exploitation has changed so much in 40 years. Plenty of people grow up with this fantasy of, “We’re going to do it like Roger Corman did it,” as that sounds so fun. If you make something small, goofy and exploitative, it’s nowhere near the guaranteed moneymaker it might have been 40 years ago. If you look at the way the world works now and money is made, it doesn’t seem that fun. Maybe that’s just a mental block I have and I need to get over that and find that corner where you can make money and still have a good movie. – Andrew Bujalski • I want to be successful and I want people to hear the music and I want to make money at it, but if it isn’t what you do, eventually it seems like that will cause you to not be able to do what you do. If you did that for a couple years, you would just become someone else, which is fine, I guess…but I don’t want to become someone else. I want to do what I enjoy and what feels right. – Will Oldham • I was just shitty, shitty, shitty with money and I finally, when I really started making money, I had to get somebody to sit down with me and learn how to manage my money. – Miriam Shor • I went to the University of Georgia for a year before I left, and then I went to live with Eileen Ford in New York for the modeling agency. I thank god I could do that because all the other kids were getting jobs doing other things, and when I got to New York, I was very blessed. I didn’t have to stop and be a waitress. I started making money at a very young age and was just very lucky. – Kim Basinger • I will bring our energy companies back. They’ll be able to compete. They’ll make money. They’ll pay off our national debt. They’ll pay off our tremendous budget deficits, which are tremendous. – Donald Trump • I’d much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you’ll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you’ll realise that you’re a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system. – Jaron Lanier • Ideas don’t make money, effort does. – Mike Michalowicz • If 5000 people bought my record, I would appreciate those 5000 people. I make music for them because music isn’t supposed to be so money driven. I didn’t get into the music game because I wanted to make money. I sing because that’s a God given talent of mine and it’s something I love to do. If it’s 10,000 or a million people, I’m going to give people the music they like from me. That’s what being an artist is. Whoever likes your work, that’s who you do it for. – Marcus Ramone Cooper • If a lot of money goes into the stock market, it’ll push up prices, making money for stock speculators. Then the insiders can decide that it’s time to sell out, and the market will plunge. – Michael Hudson • If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won’t. – Joyce Hall • If a movie makes money, then it’s a success. – Wade Eastwood • If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel. – James Ellroy • If it’s all win-loss, then you do whatever you can to win and to make money and to beat the deal. – David Brooks • If organizations are focused on a purpose, something that will make the world a better place and leave a big impact, people can rally behind that mission. If a company is only about making money, it’s hard to unleash passion. If there’s a big WHY that the company is working to solve, passion will flow like the amazon. – Josh Linkner • If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave. – Virginia Woolf • If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don’t need tax loopholes to make money. – James Surowiecki • If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating. – Jesse Lauriston Livermore • If the only thing that you want to do is make money – if that’s your whole motivation – I think you’re lying to yourself. If the only motivation you have is to make money and make it, what’s making it? Oh, you get a yacht or an island. Well, you’re going to need someone to be on that island. You’re going to need people, one way or another. – Willis Earl Beal • If there’s no deals being made rappers, what happens to the lawyers. They’ve got to close their firms, they can’t make no money. How can they make money from the client now? Litigation! – RZA • If you become famous and you start making money, then people want to give you things. It’s the exact opposite of how it’s supposed to be. – Joel McHale • If you can’t figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion? – David Heinemeier Hansson • If you go into acting to make money then you’re an idiot. It’s my hobby and the fact that I’m doing my hobby for a job is mental. – Jeremy Irvine • If you make money back from your record, you’re doing it smart. It’s an expensive hobby. I’m lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties. – Robyn Hitchcock • If you only have the mind of, “We have to sell this music and I have to make money on this music,” then it’s not really about the music anymore; it’s about the money. I’m not saying I don’t want to make money, but I’m thinking a little more long-term than just making a buck today. – Anoop Desai • If you’re not familiar with it, a college degree is a thing that we tell our kids to buy with money they don’t have, in hopes that it will help them make money they might earn, which will give them the ability to pay back the money they spent in order to make the money they’re paying it back with. – Matt Walsh • If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker’s bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich. – Eric Ries • If you’re good at the art and you wanna make money, then it’s fine. But if you’re just doing it because you know you’re gonna make money, then I don’t know. Some people do it just because they need the money, but it depends on a lot of things. – Bishop Nehru • If you’re the kind of kid who thinks that all that’s important in life is making money, Wall Street is probably still the place to go, especially now that Trump’s elected. – Michael Lewis • If you’ve got the money, you need people to make money with your money. And if you have the talent, you can always merchandise your talent to someone who’s got the money and make money. There’s two pieces to it: talent and money. – Barbara Corcoran • I’m always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money. – Patricia Heaton • I’m fascinated with the attitude of younger rock bands, even ones that are making money at it. I don’t ever hear them talk about it as a “career.” It almost makes me think there isn’t even a music industry anymore, like an atom bomb fell and it was just eradicated forever. – Travis Morrison • I’m free of stress and worries now because if I don’t like something I’m doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money – when I grew up so poor, ya know? – Jenny McCarthy • I’m not interested in making money. It’s just that with my talent, I’m cursed with it. – Noel Gallagher • I’m not into fame. I’m not into making money, outside of financing my books. I’m not into status. My thing is basically about time – not wasting it. – Henry Rollins • I’m not really interested in making money. – Steven Spielberg • I’m not trying to make friends, I’m trying to make money. – Kevin O’Leary • 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. – Stephen Baldwin • In Europe, where we have all these different forms of financing and cultural funds and systems like that, it’s a good mixture of supporting artists to make movies. But, on the other side, everyone still wants to make money making movies. Again, even in the European film business, it’s expensive to make movies. – Baran Odar • In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn’t very good at it. – Adam Carolla • In my opinion, the greatest misconception about the market is the idea that if you buy and hold stocks for long periods of time, you’ll always make money. Let me give you some specific examples. Anyone who bought the stock market at any time between the 1896 low and the 1932 low would have lost money. In other words, there’s a 36 year period in which a buy-and-hold strategy would have lost money. As a more modern example, anyone who bought the market at any time between the 1962 low and the 1974 low would have lost money. – Victor Sperandeo • In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business relations, to a principle which had been a real and intimate part of my family upbringing. Our idea was to make money and build business through serving the community with fair dealing and honest value. – James Cash Penney • 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. – Theo de Raadt • In the beginning, me and my bandmates just did stuff on our own – we had smoke bombs, we’d dress as crazy and as weird as we possibly could, just to give ourselves a different ambience. But when we started making money, of course, the ideas started getting bigger. We were big fans of Broadway; we were like, “Man, when you go see a Broadway show, you just get pulled right out of reality; you’re into their world for a two-hour period. It would be nice if we could do that onstage with a music concert”. – Philip Bailey • In the middle of the last century there was a reason to go to war. This time around the war was a really bad idea and I think the only people that benefited from it were Halliburton and people that made money from it, but that’s not an excuse to have a war. Killing American kids so Halliburton can make money is not a righteous reason to go to war. – Anthony Kiedis • In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed… All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement. – Lady Gregory • It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it? – Larry Hagman • It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money. – Hillary Clinton • It is a fearful environment where no one can trust to pick up a stranger, or a stranger cannot trust to get in a car. That search I find lacking. That openness. Right now, we have got ourselves stuck in one thing, which is make money as fast as we can, because it is hard to live in this world without it. Let us face it. – Chris Noth • It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. – W. H. Auden • It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules…It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it. – Nina Simone • It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is acting. I don’t believe it. I feel whenever you are doing a film, you are acting. So you need to be applauded for that. I won’t do art house cinemas. I want to make commercial films. I want my films to make money. – Bipasha Basu • It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power. – Pope Leo XIII • It makes it [work] a lot easier when you like what you do. It’s easy when you’re working and making money doing it. It’s hard when you’re not. That’s when that gets challenged. – Marc Blucas • It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars. – Carlos Ghosn • It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great ’30s film or a movie of David’s Lynch or some other director I love that could also make money, because that would say to the corporation, “Yes, you can make money and still do art.” But it’s tricky. – Laura Dern • It’s not that Monsanto is making money out of the blue. It’s making money by coercing and literally forcing people to pay for what was free. Take water, for instance. Water has always been free. We’ve never paid for drinking water. The World Bank says the reason water has been misused is because it was never commercially priced. But the reason it’s been misused is because it was wasted by the big users—industry, which polluted it. – Vandana Shiva • It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. – Albert Camus • It’s brutal. I see friends when their shows don’t work. Everything’s riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward. – David Spade • It’s obviously a lot more of a political undertaking making a movie in Hollywood and it’s a business there. In Australia, they don’t expect films to make money; whereas in America they’re counting on it. – Andrew Dominik • It’s OK, by the way, that it takes 10 years for you to make “money.” Since when was it that being in your mid-30s to make a few hundred thousand dollars or a million dollars was like egregiously unfair? I think we have to have a sense of perspective here. We’re all going to live into our 80s or 90s. So what is everybody in such a rush for? – Chamath Palihapitiya • It’s one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen? – Billy Eichner • It’s the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars. – Mickey Rourke • I’ve always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that’s the real test. – Robert Fulghum • I’ve figured out that I don’t want to spend all of my spare time trying to make money. But, with things like fame or internet presence – things you cannot cash in at the bank – there is still a sense that more is better and that your career should be following a certain trajectory. – Erika M. Anderson • I’ve had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I’ve had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I’ve had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them. – Judd Apatow • I’ve realized that although Valentine’s Day can be a cheesy money making stint to most people, it’s a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn’t have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated. – Reeva Steenkamp • Just being able to make exactly what I want with my brother and a lot of my best friend and to have a place like HBO that not only lets you do that, but supports you and puts up billboards in support of it, and really puts it out there for you. That’s not something I get a lot in the independent film world where everybody’s pinching pennies and nervous about whether it’s going to make money or not. – Mark Duplass • Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore. – Lucy Fisher • Long hair, short skirts, the girls like this image and try to make money with it. What they wear, how they behave, it’s all part of the business. Television and advertising have changed a great many things. In the old days, we used to make our money on the course. Now your market value is decided elsewhere. – Laura Davies • Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It’s money that’s dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money. – John Dos Passos • Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don’t have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from. – Fran Lebowitz • Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil. – Henry Fielding • Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher. – Alanis Morissette • Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock. – Nathan Myhrvold • Making money is awesome and fun as hell, but they’re saying, “Well, you’re offered a whole lot of money to do this,” and it’s like, well, I do want the money, but I don’t really do that – like headline a big festival or something like that. I could go there and do that, but it isn’t really what I do. It feels weird to me. – Will Oldham • Making money isn’t hard in itself… What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon • Making money isn’t the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. – Warren Buffett • Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. – Dalai Lama • Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived. – Dalai Lama • Managers will work for a salary. Entrepreneurs create new businesses. Many people have capital, but instead of making money for business they build houses for rent. It’s easy money to collect rental. – John Gokongwei • Many chefs of a certain caliber do not see me as a chef. I don’t have a restaurant. They see me as a TV food personality, not a chef. I’ve gotten respect, trust me, they respect me, but I think that I can’t hit that particular level of respect from them until I have a successful Vegas restaurant that not only makes money but creates unbelievable food and a fabulous experience. I don’t think people think I can cook, and they don’t think I know what the hell I’m doing. – Giada De Laurentiis • Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven’t time to see other girls. – Doris Lilly • Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school. – Malin Akerman • Money follows art. Money wants what it can’t buy. Class and talent. And remember while there’s a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it. – Candace Bushnell • Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether…it should be maintained or abolished. – Frederick Douglass • Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money. – Benjamin Franklin • Most banks – with Deutsche Bank at the top of the spectrum here – have decided that they can’t make money lending to barrowers anymore, so they’re going to the second business plan: They lend money to casino capitalists. That is, to people who want to gamble on derivatives. – Michael Hudson • Most of this innovative new music doesn’t make money so it’s regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as “underground”. – Eddy de Clercq • Most people have no idea what cops really do. They think cops give you a speeding ticket. They don’t see the cops associating with professional criminals and making money in the process. They believe that when a guy puts on a uniform, he or she becomes virtuous. But people who go into law enforcement do so for the trill of wielding power over other people, and in this sense, they relate more to the crooks they associate with than the citizens they’re supposed to protect and serve. They’re looking to bully someone and they’re corrupt. That’s law enforcement. – Douglas Valentine • Movie is a near art form. It’s showbiz and people want to make money. And generally people are financing things because they think it will make money whether it’s a cable news show, a cable show, or a feature film, or whatever it is. So that’s the part of it that drives it, I think, is really the dollar. – Annette Bening • Music is a hobby, because I’m not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting. – River Phoenix • Mutual funds charge 2% per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another 3-4 percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals. I think it’s disgusting. It’s much better to be part of a system that delivers value to the people who buy the product. But if it makes money, we tend to do it in this country. – Charlie Munger • My body can’t put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore – my body is just not on the table that way anymore. – Christina Aguilera • My father thought sport was something fun – he didn’t know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: ‘Good, you can support not just yourself but me too’. – Haile Gebrselassie • My goal isn’t to make money, it’s to try and survive and make a point. – Marilyn Manson • My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So to make money in the summer we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco. – George Clooney • My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache. – Jack Ma • My parents didn’t want us on the streets or in trouble, so they thought the best thing was to have us work. I saw how we had to, during bad times, stretch the dollar. And during good times, we couldn’t spend it, because you never knew when the bad times were going to happen again. It gave me a great respect for how hard it is to make money. – Nikki Haley • Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that’s the part that’s both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I’m losing money. – Hilary Rosen • Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy. – Brian Blessed • No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real. – Peter Drucker • Nobody heeds danger when they’re making money. – James Cook • Not to say people shouldn’t get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic. – Jerry Saltz • Obviously businesses do not operate like an artists’ commune. Business involves deploying finite resources to achieve goals in a competitive environment to make money. That is something creative people understand. – John Kao • Of course we live in a world where we have to make money to eat so that’s always nice to be able to sing and make money but to do something I love and to be able to eat from…it’s great. – Jhene Aiko • Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use – which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing – for your mind is not on the music. You don’t swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound. – Alan Watts • Oftentimes, misunderstandings and antagonism surfaces most strongly when economic times are tough. And that’s not surprising. If everybody is working and feeling good and making money and buying a new house and a big screen TV, you’re less worried about what other folks are doing. – Barack Obama • Once you start making money you have to put things into perspective. – Rakim • Once you start making money, you can be an ass. But I am not an ass. I’m too lazy, that takes a lot of energy. – Wanda Sykes • One of the big things right now is the DJ is a spectacle, isn’t it? You have the enormous light show, smoke, explosions, and fire. There’s a dude with a USB stick playing somewhere in there, but the spectacle is created out of lights and lasers and whatever. The original idea of DJing – being a shadowy figure in the corner while people were having a party – is not the one that makes money and is massively popular internationally. – Joe Goddard • Patience is a part of boxing. After I had missed out on the Olympic gold medal in 1984, a lot of people tried to talk me into turning professional quickly to make money. They told me that the next Olympics in Seoul would be boycotted again, that I was wasting my life, blah blah. But I still had unfinished business. I wanted the gold medal, and I got it in ‘88. Only then was I ready to turn professional. – Lennox Lewis • People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to know you’re not authorizing that book? As soon as you make a big stink about it it only makes the book sell more. – Diana Ross • People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we’re all going to starve, and it’s the machines that’ll get good. – Jaron Lanier • People showed me this way of dealing with music, writing songs, thinking about music and shows and our community and the fact that it doesn’t have to be about being popular or fashion or making money. – Chuck Ragan • People will download the music for free and they’ll pay for it if they want to give you a compliment. They don’t have to pay for it. And the only way the artist can make money was by touring ’cause the record label didn’t take that money. Unfortunately now, cause the record company’s not making money from the downloads, now they want to take money away from everything. – Joss Stone • Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation. – Steve Jobs • Quoting Demosthenes, ‘For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.’ I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arguing that no cost is incurred when employees are paid in stock options instead of cash. I am not kidding. – Charlie Munger • Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He’s very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says. – Henry Rollins • Shareholders are sort of like cats; they get herded around, and they follow the leader. With the exception of a few activist shareholders, there are a very rare number of big, important, influential shareholders that like to step up and say there’s a problem here, especially when they’re making money. – Andrew Ross Sorkin • So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live. – Alan Watts • So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don’t so I just let him have that. But it’s got to be something I understand. It’s got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It’s got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it’s got to be a price that makes sense. – Warren Buffett • So when you do board, the first class people, they’re sitting there. A lot of them are working as your boarding. They have computers out and calculators. They’re looking up at you like, Hey, we’re making money right now! – Brian Regan • Some of the bigger companies seem to be copying only to make money, which creatively is very bad. I sometimes wonder if they have any respect. – Hiroshi Fujiwara • Some people say I’m saying what they wanna say. Some people don’t agree. Some people are outraged. Some people want to see what the album is about. To me, hip-hop’s been dead for years. We all should know that, come on. With that being said, then, the object of the game now is to make money off of exploiting it. That’s what it’s all about – get this money. That’s basically what I’m saying. – Nas • Some people start modeling because they want to be models and they want the parties and the recognition, and then there are people like me. I come from a simple family, and for me getting into modeling was a chance to make money and create a business. – Gisele Bundchen • Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don’t want to just collect more fuel. – Brad Bird • Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. – Henry Ford • Studios are attracted by making money, and they’re also trying to simplify things, going with the genre thing. The gambling instincts of a few years ago where you might make some thousands or a few hundred, it’s nothing now. – Peter Weir • Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do. – Wayne Dyer • That one person that says “I heard your stuff and I really like this.” It really touches my heart because it’s what I love to do. I’d rather do it for the people than do it for a machine, a company that just wants to make money. – Tiffany Villarreal • That’s the thing with independent cinema: They all get good reviews, and they don’t make money. Some of them are good. Some are great. And some are terrible. – Robert Englund • The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money. – Donnell Rawlings • The best thing is to motivate people to do their own work. I’m not opposed to making money. But I started to play rock ‘n’ roll to motivate others, to shake things up, wake people up and to let other skinny, pimply marginalized weirdos know they’re not alone. – Patti Smith • The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I’ve seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed. – Ross Perot • The book ‘Do You!’ is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you – then the freedom comes. And we’re only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn’t make happy. – Russell Simmons • The bureaucratic nature of both capitalism and our government assures us that there are no checks and balances when it comes to justifying any and all behavior that either makes money and secures the supposed peace of the nation-state. – Tripp York • The corruption will come back to haunt the Trump administration. But mostly, it’ll come back to haunt the American economy, as companies decide they can make money by rent-seeking, by getting money from government rather than earning it the old-fashioned way. – David Brooks • The difference between capitalism and feudalism is that under capitalism, they make money directly through wages, manufacturing, and commerce and under feudalism, it’s directly through juro-political means. – David Graeber • The film is not a success until it makes money. It’s only good when there’s a dollar figure attached to the box office. – John Cusack • The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. – A. J. Liebling • The gallery closed its doors in 1971. I could no longer psychologically handle the needs of 12 artists. I cared about all of them, and what was happening with their careers. I’m just not a person who can do that indefinitely. And tax-wise I was concerned because they gallery wasn’t making money; it was losing money. – Virginia Dwan • The goal of Apple is not to make money but to make really nice products, really great products. – Jonathan Ive • The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it. • The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.- Gore Vidal • The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don’t make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don’t pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor’s appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don’t make any money. – Michael Moore • The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. – Henry Ford • The impresario function is about intervening with the company’s more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company’s need to make money. And finally, it is about positioning the fruits of the creative process in the marketplace and selling them. – John Kao • The key to investment success is emotional discipline. Making money has nothing to do with intelligence. To be a successful investor, you have to be able to admit mistakes. I trained a guy to trade who had a 188 IQ. He was on “Jeopardy” once and answered every question correctly. That same person never made a dime in trading during 5 years! – Victor Sperandeo • The level of musicianship in New York is the highest in the world. It’s tough to get into. You start gigging making 50 dollars a night, or playing for nothing to get to something. It’s insane. It’s like being a modern dancer, or something – the hardest thing to make money from. – Jose James • The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don’t know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they’ll buy it if it’s selling. – Warryn Campbell • The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. – Josh Billings • The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make his life easier, preferably both. Also, you have to learn as much as you can about your chosen endeavor. – Bill O’Reilly • The music business is suffering because fewer artists are being invested in. Labels are putting in less money, taking fewer risks and signing half as many artists as they did 10 years ago. Everything is risk averse right now and there are two ways to deal with a business situation like this: either reduce your risk or increase your return. They’re reducing their risk to the bone and looking for ways with their 360 deals to increase their return. They’re still not making money. Artists are suffering. Labels, or music investors, are suffering. – Tom Silverman • The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn’t been making money. Labels are signing bands they trust as artistic entities, instead of cash cows. They’re signing bands because they believe that the bands have tastes beyond anything they could concoct themselves. – Caroline Polachek • The old model of the industry was founded largely upon business folk trying to make money off artists. At EMP, we let the music make the money, not the other way around. We have flipped the model to make the artistry be at the forefront of everything we do. Music makes the business and that’s what makes it work. – David Ellefson • The only reason to do business is to make money; that’s the only reason for doing business. – Kevin O’Leary • The only reason to go into business is to make money. You have to work hard at it. If you’re not passionate about it, you’ll burn out so fast that it is incredible. – Dave Ramsey • The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs. – Jimmy Webb • The point has always been to make music, it’s not like I’ve always been running a giant money making scheme. – Girl Talk • The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them. – Peter Lynch • The reason I do Shark Tank isn’t to try take make more money of the deals, even though every deal I want to make money off of and even more so I want the entrepreneurs to be very successful and make money, but Shark Tank sends a message to everybody that the American Dream is alive and well. – Mark Cuban • The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free. – Tom Hodgkinson • The reason or motivation you have for making money or creating success is vital. – T. Harv Eker • The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase “ill-gotten” might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful. – Richard Dawkins • The studios don’t seem to foster good writing. They’re not so interested in that, but they’re more interested in what worked most recently. They’re definitely very serious about making money, and that’s not a wrong thing, but you don’t have to make money the same way all the time. – Bill Murray • The U.S. Treasury can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time. So when Merrill Lynch sells a bunch of mortgage-related assets at 22 cents on the dollar like they did a month or so ago, the buyer goes – is going to make money, and he’s going to make a lot more money if it happens to be an institution like the U.S. government which has very, very cheap borrowing costs. – Warren Buffett • The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that’s the other reason that they’re fighting it is the corporate prisons they have now. Because they’ve privatized all our prisons, corporations have to make money, and the only way they can make money is, I believe, the prisons have to be at least 80-90 percent full. That’s why the United States – which is home of the brave, land of the free – we have more people in prison than any other country in the world. – Jesse Ventura • The way the Europeans work, most girls get paid by their federation; their country pays them. Essentially the federations say go represent our country, race on whatever trade team you want, and here’s your money. So you don’t really make you’re money on trade teams. Europeans make money through their country’s federation. There’s not a lot of money for women in cycling in Europe either. – Kristin Armstrong • The way we make money as a group is that we don’t pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations. – Joel Greenblatt • The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film. – Vin Diesel • The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is necessary to please as many people as possible, to amuse them, to entertain them – in short, to do everything that will help increase the volume of sales. – Dagobert D. Runes • The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. – Karl Marx • Then there was communism’s weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn’t take all the money away from all the people since all the people don’t have money. We should take all the money away from only the people who make money. Then, when we run out of that, we could take more money from the people who…hey, wait! Where’d you people go? What do you mean you’re “tax exiles in Monaco?” – P. J. O’Rourke • There are a lot of true culturalists who respect where they’re from, but you have some who are just all about the benjamins, like, “I wanna get my money, I wanna get mine, you get yours, more power to you,” and they don’t care. That deals with the whole thing of life, whether you’re agreeable or disagreeable, the yin and the yang, the evil versus good. That’s how it is in the music industry. There are people who care for the whole culture and what they’re doing, and have love for it, and are not into just making money. – Afrika Bambaataa • There is a terrible thing that’s been happening probably for the last 20 years or so and it’s called the music business. And music isn’t really business; it’s work and you got to pay and you’ve got to buy your guitar or go into the studio. So there is a business side but when people say, “I’m going into the music business,” it’s not. It’s about expression. It’s about creativity. You don’t join music, in my mind, to make money. You join it because it’s in you; it’s in your blood stream. – Gavin Friday • There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money. – David Tepper • There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, ‘Hey, let’s just make money,’ because it doesn’t work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it. – Yoko Ono • There isn’t any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn’t is a fool. It’s a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money. – Sydney Pollack • There were a lot of video store owners and managers out of work, once pornography became more about streaming and downloads. But the other thing is that there are a lot of people who make money by finding a place to stand and add almost nothing. It’s particularly ironic if your job title is pimp. On some level, in a healthier world where sex work could be rationalized and the risk reduced, your whole job title would be extraneous anyway. It’s not exactly a point of great grievance if you’re a pimp that suddenly your prostitutes don’t require the same level of reliance.- David Simon • There’re the causes where people are like, “What can you do for us? You guys have success and stature; you can make money for us and at the same time present yourselves to the public as altruistic and civic-minded.” So it’s an exchange. I don’t mind looking altruistic and civic-minded if we’re actually being that way. – Kim Thayil • There’s all of the DVD extra material and all these other pieces of information that don’t fit into a 90-minute experience, but it’s still content and people still want to see it. It’s being open to [the fact that] the business is changing and being open to how you can make money to afford you to stay in business to keep making new things. I think you just have to have an open mind and be really smart about stuff and not be so locked into the conventional way of how the process used to go. – Alex Stapleton • There’s more empathetic representations than we’re used to seeing. I honestly feel like in the early days of Hollywood, women did have those. Women had very traditional roles in society of wife and mother, but when they went to the movies, they got to see women be, like, really cool, amazing characters and femme fatales and all of this. And then there was just this systemic reaction where it was all about, “How do we make money?” And everybody wants to sell things to boys. And then women’s entertainment became devalued in a way that I think is disrespectful and hurtful. – Elizabeth Banks • There’s so much great TV and I always thought it would be such a fun little sideway to make money and then not have to worry about my films making a lot of money. – Lynn Shelton • There’s such an emphasis on making money that we’ve really taken the humanity out of business. – Paul Tudor Jones • There’s the complex categorization of low warmth/high competence. This is the hostile stereotype of Asian Americans by white America, of Jews in Europe, of Indo-Pakistanis in East Africa, of Lebanese in West Africa, of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia, and of the rich by the poor most everywhere. It’s the same low-high derogation: They’re cold, greedy, clannish – -but, dang, they’re sure good at making money and you should go to one who is a doctor if you’re seriously sick. – Robert M. Sapolsky • There’s very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money when they can make films that make huge money. – Henry Selick • These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor raked in quite a bit of cash that she may have put, for all I know, to good uses, or maybe not. I just don’t know. But I don’t think she was any great literary breakthrough. – William A. Rusher • Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would… make money. – Robert Redford • Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is easy to come by, growth is easy, sometimes what you focus on is, you know, how to accelerate in the boom. During economic crises, the question is, the companies that come out of, you know, that are sailing through that with the best liquidity, both assets on the balance sheet, making money, ability to grow their businesses, get a disproportionate competitive advantage. – Reid Hoffman • To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep. – David Bailey • To most observers, innovation is a solitary process that requires creativity and genius, perhaps even greatness. It can’t, in their view, be managed or predicted, just hoped for and, perhaps, facilitated. But for me innovation was and still is more than that. It was a battle in the marketplace between innovators or attackers trying to make money by changing the order of things, and defenders protecting their cash flow. – Richard J. Foster • Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult. – Jack Ma • Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He’s nice-looking; he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I’d do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money. – Miles Davis • True divine guidance asks you to focus on service. False guidance is more ego-oriented, more about what’s in it for you – for example, more focused on making money for its own sake. True guidance may help you make money, but it won’t focus on that. – Doreen Virtue • Typically, we make money when we buy things. We count the profits later, but we know we have captured them when we buy the bargain. – Seth Klarman • We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies. – Walt Disney • We lost our way a long time ago with technology. Just because something is an advancement by going digital – that was a huge (expletive) mistake. It was a way for people to make money, but it sure didn’t improve sound or quality of record making. It made it faster, cheaper, but it isn’t as durable. – John Mellencamp • We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism – it’s the downfall of capitalism. Self-interest, maybe, but self-interest run amok does not serve anyone. The core value of conscious capitalism is enlightened self-interest. As Jim Cramer on CNBC says, “Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered.” – Patricia Aburdene • We need to throw the resources at this that are necessary. But like I say, we are not spending money. I mean, if we buy these assets intelligently, the United States Treasury will make money. I mean, it’s borrowing money. It’s just a few percent a year. – Warren Buffett • We pay a subsidy. Money coming over the border, they’re – there are so many ways that Mexico makes money with us, Bob. There are so many different ways, five in particular, that we will take it out of there. – Donald Trump • We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China… and it becomes this shell game. – Michael Moore • We should note it is not illegal for the campaign to pay [Doanld] Trump owned businesses as long as they`re charging fair market rates. And while the optics are pretty stunning, we shouldn`t be surprised. Afterall, this is the guy that told Fortune magazine in 2000 it`s very possible I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it. – Chris Hayes • Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. – Roger Wicker • Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money! – Joe Biden • Well, TV does a better job. In film, the justification has been that movies focused on stories or featuring people of color don’t make money. – Joe Robert Cole • We’re not ignored by The Guinness Book Of Records, but we’ve been largely ignored by the media during our lifetime. If you read any article, no mention is ever made of Pink Floyd. We’re never included in the same sentences as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who. I wrote ‘The Wall’ as an attack on stadium rock – and there’s Pink Floyd making money out of it by playing it in stadiums! Pathetic. They spoiled my creations. – Roger Waters • What I think people should realize is that programs like Social Security, programs like Medicare, programs like the Veterans Administration, programs like your local park and your local library – those are, if you like, socialist programs; they’re run by [and] for the public, not to make money. I think in many ways we should expand that concept so that the American people can enjoy the same benefits that people all over the world are currently enjoying. – Bernie Sanders • What I want to do is make films that astonish people, that astound people, and I hope you want to do that too. It’s easy to make money. It’s easy to make films like everybody else. But to make films that explode like grenades in people’s heads and leave shrapnel for the rest of their lives is a very important thing. That’s what the great filmmakers did for me. I’ve got images from Fellini, from Bergman, from Kurowsawa, from Bunuel, all stuck in my brain. – Terry Gilliam • What I want to try to prove is that artistic games, when done properly, can still be a commercial success. By doing that, I will be able to essentially shift the industry and create more opportunity for people to create artistic games. In a way, making money is important for us right now. Not because we need it, but because the industry needs it. – Jenova Chen • What I’m angry about, and I’ve gone on record saying this, is I think that financiers get away with murder. They realize they can get something for nothing and they won’t settle for anything else. There’s something called a Schedule F. If I work for a Schedule F contract that basically means I’m doing the movie for free because by the time I pay all my commissions and taxes there’s barely anything left for me to live on. This whole notion that you do work that you love for very little money and then you go out and do something you hate to make money. – Michael Shannon • What most interests me is human connection, whether it’s on the street, in community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money. – Ben Sollee • What’s so great is that we’re making money for AIDS in Africa. There’s a lot of love and spontaneity, we’re doing something creative. That’s what I love about Red. It’s not just a charity, “Give us money, give us money.” It’s being innovative. Like here’s a show that you won’t see anywhere else and you can come and whatever you pay for your ticket it’s going somewhere. You can go and buy a pair of Armani shades, like Bono, but the money goes to Africa. It’s quite cool. – Gavin Friday • What’s wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It’s run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it. – M.I.A. • When China sends over their people to negotiate, they pick their meanest, smartest, most vicious guy; and these guys, they don’t play games. They don’t laugh, they don’t cry, they have no emotion. They just want to make money, and they just want to rip our country to shreds. – Donald Trump • When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no different than an aristocracy. It’s not created from the people in the middle of the streets, so to speak. It is created from a petri dish for the sake of making money, and it is undermining the longevity of the culture. – Chuck D • When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers. – Charles Koch • When father was younger than me he came to New York to be in musicals and was in a number of them. But he, at that time in his life, didn’t feel he could fully commit to a creative life – he had this voice in the back of his head that said, “I need to make money.” So that propelled him to open up an ice cream parlor, which then spawned into a number of different food businesses and took over his life for 20 years. – Peter Vack • When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time. – Matthew McConaughey • When I went out to shoot for the first time, I thought this was going to be about the prison industrial complex, purely about prison for profit and the ways in which there’s an industry making money and profiting off punishment. – Ava DuVernay • When it comes to the Federal Reserve, there’s an awful lot of books out there; in my library, I bet I’ve got 200 books if I’ve got any on the Federal Reserve. And we don’t need any more books, we need action, and that’s what the Liberty Dollar did, it gave people a way to take action. Our catch phrase was you want to “make money, do good, and have fun,” and people really responded to that. – Bernard von NotHaus • When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you can say the person that is in charge of the making money for the family is doing the right thing. – Dan Ariely • When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance. – Brad Pitt • When you never leave the literary biosphere, you forget how few people actually read books, and that in turn makes you start overestimating both your ability to make money and your relative renown, which has dangerous consequences: the first means you may end up in debt; the second means you may end up a horrid bore. – Hanya Yanagihara • When you tell filthy jokes as if they were all really serious, and happening all in the life of one family, it becomes a farcical situation. Imagine if you had a script that was imposed on your life – we all do in a certain way, from society, or family, the need to make money, biology, death. But you will have a certain latitude, or freedom, to read the script in your own way. – Momus • When you’re dealing with people in an industry that’s all about making money, they push you farther than you really wanna go. – Lil’ Kim • Whenever you have consolidation, you do that for more economies of scale and leverage in making deals. But when you start losing control, like with the web, you lose some of the benefits. You can’t hold films or records back anymore because the internet has made everything available as soon as it’s available. Record labels have to learn to make money, and that’s moved from a control model to a collaborative world. When I talk about hobbyists, those are consumers wanting to be creators. But maybe one or two of them could become the next superstar, but I can’t wait for that. – Tom Silverman • Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not ashamed of it; the fact that people will pay money for my goods and services shows that my work is useful. – Robert A. Heinlein • Windows isn’t supposed to make sense, it’s supposed to make money. – Paul Lutus • With the money I’m making, I should be playing two positions. – Pete Rose • Without market prices for capital goods, accounting is not possible. You don’t know if you are making money or losing money, saving resources or wasting them, doing the right thing or not doing the right thing. – Llewellyn Rockwell • Women spend 80 cents of every dollar in the marketplace. We could be the most powerful force for economic and environmental change in the 21st century if we focused our money where it could make the biggest difference. If a million people did that, it would have a $1 billion impact. – Diane MacEachern • Wrapping rubber bands around a watermelon is not journalism. It is entertainment. But the key to success in media has always been a broad mix of serious reporting and entertainment. The New York Times does not make its money on reports about Iraq and Syria. It makes money on its gardening section, food and, yes, stories about cats. “The Today Show” is a very successful program because it is a mix of the celebrity chef and the crazy pet who does the rolls and serious news and interviews. – Henry Blodget • Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks. – Al Franken • You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I’ve made lots of money making fun of me. – Glenn Beck • You can make money without doing evil. – Sergey Brin • You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you. – Maya Angelou • You can’t make money with a consensus accurate prediction. – Bill Gurley • You can’t make money without selling something real. You can’t make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can’t have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings. – James Altucher • You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are. – Spike Lee • You know, Steve Jobs came to the music industry and pitched them the idea and they kept shootin’ him down and shootin’ him down, and now he makes money off the whole music industry regardless. Which is a minor part of his empire, ’cause obviously it’s gadgets that make him all of his money. But regardless, he has basically monopolized the music game. – Pitbull • You make a living from 8 to 5, but you make money from 5 to 8. – Bill Kraus • You make money when you get visitors to go through the entrance at capacity. – Michael J. Silverstein • Young black men had an opportunity to make money that they had never made before, so why not be flashy? I’m not mad at the flash. It just needed to be balanced. – Styles P • You’re always hoping you can attract a bigger audience, but at the same time, I’d hate to give up what I write. If I could write Chick Lit or something like that and make money off it, that’d be great. But I just can’t do it. – Donald Ray Pollock • You’re either making money or you’re not. If you’re not making money get out of the business. – Meredith Whitney • You’re Mexican until you make money and then you’re Spanish. – Lee Trevino

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• A boxer should quit at the top, as they say. But that’s complicated. There are plenty of people in boxing who make money out off you. And they tell you that you’ve still got it, that it’s still getting better. – Lennox Lewis • A good trader loves an active market, you don’t make money when the market is static. – Kevin Kinsella • A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be. – Deepak Chopra • A lot of artists just put on the people they can make money off of. – Donnis • A lot of people now make a living off of YouTube. It’s the world’s most popular video site by far, it’s a subsidiary by Google. Increasingly, Google seems to be letting politics dictate who is allowed to make money from the platform. – Tucker Carlson • a man can radically change his life and attain to a deeper meaning, a more perfect integration, a more complete fulfillment, a more total liberty of spirit than are possible in the routines of a purely active existence centered on money-making. – Thomas Merton • After the first one [Twilight Saga movie], as soon as people start referring to something as a franchise. A franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It’s not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. That’s how they refer to it. They love it when something has become a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it’s scary. – Robert Pattinson • Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I’m 53 now and won’t be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry – another reason why I’m thinking about living in California. – Gary Numan • All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. – Paul Auster • All the interesting films are now being made by their subsidiaries for very low budgets. But the studios are not making money. They’re making these big, very expensive pictures that take a lot of money but don’t really pay for their costs. So they’re having a very difficult time. I can see the system breaking down. I think the American studios are a reflection or a metaphor for American industry altogether, which is failing in the world. Its economic domination is being broken down and I think the same thing is happening to the studios. – John Boorman • American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money. – Ludwig von Mises • Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money. – Miles Davis • Americans like to make money, Canadians like to count it. – Northrop Frye • Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don’t know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status. – Northrop Frye • An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want the future more than the present. Whenever you want the future more than you want the present, true intelligence cannot flow into what you do, because it can do so only when you are totally aligned with the present moment. – Eckhart Tolle • Any skills that I have, I couldn’t really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine – the getting down and getting nitty – gritty. – Ian Harding • Anybody who’s putting out records is probably not making money at it. – Alan Sparhawk • As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money and/or advance their position or place in life there can be a lot to weigh and consider, such as responsibilities, goals and objectives etc. We all make choices, deal with our sense of priorities, principles, ethics, morals, balancing, juggling, making compromises… or not! Ha! – Axl Rose • As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom. – Adam McKay • As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue. – David Korten • At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, “I’m out of here! What are you doing to me?” He thought he wouldn’t be involved in that kind of stuff for the rest of his life. He just wanted to make money. He was one of those people who took over the family responsibility. His own father was pretty irresponsible with money and borrowed from people all the time. – Paul Laffoley • At one point, for example, [Donald Trump] argued that he knew much more than military leaders about the pursuit and defeat of ISIS. His assuredness of his own correctness seems also rooted in arrogance reflecting his fundamental insecurity. This insecurity and his belief in his own rightness, when combined with his success at making money, leads him to be self-reliant in his decision-making, which could result in his taking risks with threatening or using nuclear weapons. – David Krieger • At the core of an analytical edge is an ability to systematically distinguish between fundamentals and expectations. Fundamentals are a well thought out distribution of outcomes, and expectations are what’s priced into an asset. A power metaphor is the [pari-mutuel] racetrack. The fundamentals are how fast a given horse will run and the expectations are the odds on the tote board. As any serious handicapper knows, you make money only by finding a mispricing between the performance of the horse and the odds. There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ horses, just correctly or incorrectly priced ones. – Michael Mauboussin

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• Children are the ultimate investment of all of those that want to make money, to sell, to dominate. So there are two meanings. They are our ultimate investment for anyone who is honest and ethical and loving, but also for all the commerce. – Laura Huxley • Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can’t derive this by fundamental analysis – you must think biologically. – Charlie Munger • Concentrate on your money. Try to hold your paper. It takes money to make money, so save your money, opportunites come. – Curtis Jackson • Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money. – Benjamin Carson • Define your own success: If you’re going after a million bucks with your own startup, you’ve already failed yourself. Instead, do something because it’s interesting, challenging, it offers you the chance to learn something new or gives you the chance to work with really interesting people. Most startups that are designed to make money, especially in this environment, don’t. – Tara Hunt • Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. – Walt Disney • Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all. – Peter Singer • Do something you like that you feel is important. Don’t worry about making money at it right away. If you try hard and long enough you will figure out a way to do it. Better to die happy than die rich. – Peter Menzel • Don’t get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life. – Darren Johnson • Don’t go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy. – Marianne Williamson • Don’t just make money, make a difference. – Grant Cardone • Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. – George Burns • Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way. – Bob Seger • Every person has a talent, but not the same one. Every person has to discover his personal talent and go with his talent. And then you are you, and what you do, you do because you love what you do, not because you want to be famous or because you’re making money. You do the work because you love it. – Alejandro Jodorowsky • Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain’t no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did. – Tupac Shakur • Everybody who’s making the movies needs to work hard to make sure they’re good. And if you don’t show up and see the movies and support them financially, no one is going to make them. It’s going to change unless it makes money. That’s the long and short of it. You have to give in to the fact that it’s a business. – Paul Feig • Everyday I wake up I’m fulfilling my dream. Every day my manager calls I’m fulfilling my dream. I know if my manager doesn’t call I’m not making money so when he does call I know I’m making money. – Yung Joc • Facebook has been around for seven years. It has 500 million users. If you can’t figure out how to make money off half a billion people in seven years, I’m going to go out on a limb and say you’re unlikely to ever do. – David Heinemeier Hansson • FACT: You CAN make money doing what you love! Even in a down economy! – Walt F. J. Goodridge • Film and TV is a very hard profession to enter into if you don’t have the ability to take a long period of time without making money so you can write, direct or raise financing, or work your way up, often with unpaid internships. It’s hard to get into without a lot of connections. You end up with a lot of white people from privilege making films. So we’re seeing a lot of the same kinds of stories. – Sarah Polley • First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I’m other things… But I didn’t play drums to make money. – Ringo Starr • Folk music isn’t owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It’s our common property. There is nobody’s name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It’s not copywritten. – Utah Phillips • For a ridiculous analogy, let’s take Purple Rain. If you were to put Purple Rain and The Sound of Music on the desk of a producer, he or she would know that the majority of moviegoers would rather listen to Prince. Since they are in the business of making money, no one can blame them. But if it ever came to the decision of making a film like that I’d say, “No.” They are very easy films to make, though. In Purple Rain there is nothing complex about the way that they dance. Or sing. It would be a bit boring for an adult to make that film. It just wouldn’t test their métier. – Gene Kelly • For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies. – Jackie Chan • For me, film has been good because I’m able to work at top crack, working at something I love to do, in the only literary form in which you can still make money. There are no famous novelists, not as novelists used to be famous. – William Monahan • For people whose job it is to make sure we make money, there’s a lot of pressure. – Anna Kendrick • For those interested in learning more about corporations and private individuals profiting from the caging of human beings, I highly recommend the book “Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money From Mass Incarceration.” – Michelle Alexander • Go have fun and make money – James Victore • Going shopping all the time. Just making money, and competing with the niggas in other neighborhoods. And the whole competition with the girls – who had the prettiest girlfriend – and going partying. It was just on. It was fun! – The Notorious B.I.G. • Good money management alone isn’t going to increase your edge at all. If your system isn’t any good, you’re still going to lose money, no matter how effective your money management rules are. But if you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure. – Monroe Trout • Google AdWords help with targeting people. Social media makes it easy to find people. A lot of people write blogs as a hobby. Others do it to make money. Instead of advertising on a blog, do a revenue share where you give them a 10-percent share for the business you receive. – Cameron Johnson • High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that’s wrong. – Willard C. Butcher • Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don’t make money, you’re to blame. Your job is to make money. – Orson Welles • Hollywood is a business and movie studios are only going to do what’s going to make money. It’s not an altruistic thing. They are blatant grabs for money. Responsible studios want to make quality pictures, but at the same time nobody is going to make quality pictures they know aren’t going to make any money. – Paul Feig • How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money? – Rebecca Goldstein • I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do? – Bill Gates • I always knew I’d go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school. – Rachel Nichols • I always remember my dad saying, “No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it.” It was not an honorable thing to do. – Sofia Coppola • I always tell students that the first question to ask about any historical action is this: who makes money out of the deal? – Carl R Trueman • I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of. – Joel Osteen • 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. – Harvey S. Firestone • I cannot afford to waste my time making money – Louis Agassiz • I can’t draw a stick person. I can’t play a musical instrument. But I’ve always had a knack for making money. – Tilman J Fertitta • I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money. – Anne Robinson • I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect. – Stanley Donwood • I come from making money in the streets. The streets all I know. All my family is still in the streets. So, it’s going to be hard to pull me right back into that. When I ain’t doing no shows four days out of the week, I may be in my hood or at my grandma’s house in the hood. But yes, I got a kid. I got to get more serious about the music so he don’t get dragged into that life. – Shy Glizzy • I could be an alternative comic. I could be that really dark – I was – I was a very dark comic to begin with. I could be that guy, and the only reason I didn’t is that I wanted to make money. I wanted to be popular. I wanted to be liked more than I wanted to be admired. – Louie Anderson • I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward poverty : “As an artist, you don’t make money.” I had to figure out some kind of way to guarantee that I’d be able to continue doing the work that I wanted to do, whether I made money from the work I was doing or not. – Kerry James Marshall • I didn’t think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising. – Liev Schreiber • I don’t buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They’re basically stealing someone’s image in order to make money for themselves… They wait at the end of my street in their cars. Every time I exit my home, I have company. – Ashton Kutcher • I don’t have any ego about it, but I find there’s not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you’re dead. – Norm MacDonald • I don’t have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it. – Michael Birch • I don’t hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards that. If he stops – he’s full of crap, you know. I mean, I wouldn’t do it, for no money, or for no place in the white man’s world. Not just to make money, because then you don’t have anything. You don’t have as much money as whoever you’re trying to ape; that’s making money by being commercial. Then you don’t have anything to give the world; so you’re not important. You might as well be dead. – Miles Davis • I don’t like people telling other people what to do. Sex work for a lot of women is really important, especially in countries where women don’t have a lot of power. Here we can have at least some form … of making money. – Margaret Cho • I don’t make music to make money. I make music because that’s what I like to do. You would think, “Yeah, of course, that’s what an artist does,” but there ain’t too many artists around anymore. I see a lot of people who, if they thought they wouldn’t profit, would find an easier hustle. It’s a racket now, like everything else, but we’re in a capitalistic country – everything’s a racket. Take what you can. I think the difference between that line of thinking and me is obvious. – Del tha Funkee Homosapien • I don’t need to make money destroying my environment. Why don’t I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable? – Ian Somerhalder • I don’t need to publish anything to make a living, so to speak, and I think it is much more important to spread information about our European religion than it is to make money from doing so. – Varg Vikernes • I don’t think I have ever learnt a difficult lesson. Probably sports betting, which I have lost money on. I did lose money on Apple. You’d have thought you could only make money on Apple but I was one of the people who managed to lose. – Giles Coren • I don’t understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn’t give it away. I have nothing against blogs. I don’t have a problem with them. But it’s like, ‘What are you doing? Why aren’t you working? – Frank Deford • I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference. – Lady Gaga • I don’t worry about alienating fans. I don’t think most people these days think of artists as sellouts if they license their music for a commercial or a movie trailer. If anything, fans get psyched when they hear Sleigh Bells on TV or at the movies. As a band who doesn’t make money off of record sales it’s a great way for us to pay the bills! – Alexis Krauss • I feel like my perception has changed a little because when I was posting stuff online it was an extension of my studio and then it started getting some of the attention. Now it’s like, “Oh, this is actually a place where you can make money,” but I’m not interested in competing in that space. It seems like too much to deal with. – Kalup Linzy • I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons – to make money, to be in the company of my friends – and also to hook up with young girls. I always knew, even before I played in piano bars, about the effect of my voice. – Andrea Bocelli • I got a reputation for being sort of nuts and difficult, because I was at that point, so I wasn’t much in demand. And also, on the basic level, I’d made a lot of movies that didn’t make money. And if you make movies that don’t make money – I mean, it is a business, after all – you are not in demand. – Margot Kidder • I have resigned from the professional undertaking of coin flipping. I am not here to tell you where gold’s going to be. I have no idea. That’s my existentialism. I am a student of uncertainty, I have no idea where the stock market is going to be. So when I am creating trades in my portfolio for my clients, I am agnostic. I just want to enhance the probability that I make money come what may. – Hugh Hendry • I have ways of making money that you know nothing of. – John D. Rockefeller • 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. – Terry McAuliffe • I just came back from – with Trump when I endorsed him in Iowa, in Marshalltown, a little town – 27,000 – have a lot of Hispanics working there from Mexico in a private business, so they’re still here. I’m not saying they’re here illegally but they still come and they work, make money for their families, send the money back to Mexico or whatever, so it’s a big problem. – Joe Arpaio • I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question. – Ryan Tedder • I like making money like anybody else, and I’m paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base. – Tom Petty • I live by ‘Earnin’ and burnin’.’ Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That’s the way I live my life. – Will Ferrell • I love making money, but you can’t live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically. – Julianna Margulies • I make money from touring and selling merchandise, and I honestly believe if you put effort into something and you execute properly, you don’t necessarily have to go through the traditional ways. – Chance the Rapper • I met some people who showed me a path in music where they were like hey, look, while yes, it can have to do with being popular and making money, it DOESN’T have to be. – Chuck Ragan • I never ask if the market is going to go up or down because I don’t know, and besides it doesn’t matter. I search nation after nation for stocks, asking: ‘Where is the one that is lowest-priced in relation to what I believe it’s worth?’ Forty years of experience have taught me you can make money without ever knowing which way the market is going. – John Templeton • I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. – Warren Buffett • I read a lot, and I think it’s important to stay current on the new health kicks. Some are out there just to make money, but some are really worth investigating and incorporating into our diets. – Jennifer Aniston • I realized you can always make money; you just do a lot of things. – Mary Harron • I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn’t write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that’s where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing. – Dean Koontz • I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a novelist fail to take off. As I started to try on journalism, including doing internships and working at the campus paper, I found I actually liked it. So I started to want to be a journalist. – Kevin Maney • I spent my twenties not really participating in the work force in any real way. I acted a tiny bit, but that was just because it was the only way I knew how to make money, and I sublet my apartment and lived in the woods and just tried to figure out who I was and what I wanted, what my real desire was and not just what I was used to doing, and it was a really confusing and painful, but really rich and amazing time. – Gaby Hoffmann • I talked to people that I’d done theater with, older actors and stuff. There’s a lot of people who go into the business, and they must think they’re good, or they wouldn’t be in it. Why do you think that you’re good enough to go into the business and make money at it? So I really wanted to ask myself that question a lot. Because it was an important kind of thing that I was going to do. I really wanted to do it, I loved it, and I thought that I was good enough that I could make money at it. And that’s really what it came down to. – Dean Norris • I think at the end of the day you can do both: make money and stay true to yourself. But a lot of young people look for that fame that some of these huge artists that they see on TV have, not knowing they can do what some of these underground artist are doing which is not selling their souls for a buck. – Rahki • I think cyber security, cyber warfare will be one of the biggest challenges facing the next president, because clearly we’re facing at this point two different kinds of adversaries. There are the independent hacking groups that do it mostly for commercial reasons to try to steal information that they can use to make money. – Hillary Clinton • I think every filmmaker in Europe would be lying if they didn’t say one day they just wanted to make a movie here in Hollywood or at least try it. It’s very different from European filmmaking, because here it’s like a real industry. It’s very much about money and making money, which I think is fine, because it’s very expensive to make movies. – Baran Odar • I think in a way nobody doesn’t work anymore. Even moms who say, ‘I am out of the workforce.’ They may be writing mommy blogs with no expectation of making money, but they are building an onramp for when they do go back. – Suzy Welch • I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive person, the artist, the impressionable person, the person whose raison d’etre is to incarnate the creative will, rather than to just make money, and yet that extreme difficulty that the culture poses for us has created some of the best artists in the last hundred years. – Hubert Selby, Jr. • I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book ‘Shock Doctrine.’ We make money on disaster. – Henry Rollins • I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans than the Democratic Party. I mean, the incentives seem to be set up to allow people – as long as you have a band of a few million fanatical followers, you can make money. The Democrats have managed to figure out how not to do that. – Ann Coulter • I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean ‘make money’ you need to be part of the machine unless you’re one of those superhuman people who can do everything by yourself, and have workaholic tendencies and really good advisers and a good investor. – Sia Furler • I think that’s really really important, you can’t get in the industry, because you want to make money because number one, I don’t think money should be motivation for anything because I don’t believe that it has any value. – Jhene Aiko • I think you think that phone sex is about getting the caller off, but it’s about keeping the caller on. It’s about leading with your personality and making sure that they’re still listening to you and that they’re still interested in you because you cannot make money when they hang up. – Gabourey Sidibe • I thought, you know, I can sit at home in my La-Z-Boy, on Facebook, and reach more people than I can on a tour. Because I reach 30,000 to 40,000 people for every Facebook post, some even reach 50,000 to 60,000. And I thought, if it’s about reaching people, and not about making money, why bother touring? – Mark Lowry • I try to build on our management philosophy. I try to understand what the threats and opportunities are for us. Uh, I try to make sure that we’re driving innovation and creative destruction hard enough so we’re not blindsided, and that our attitude is to, in starting any initiative, any business, is to focus on how we can create value for others, rather than how we maximize profit, because you can make money focusing on, “How do I maximize profit?” – Charles Koch • I turn down invitations to do things for money. I have almost no interest in making money. Actually, I’ve acquired a fair amount of money that I will never live to spend. So earning money, in a way, depresses me, because I feel it’s just piling up. – Joyce Carol Oates • I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money. – Dennis Rodman • I want the pleasures of the real exploitation movie, and exploitation has changed so much in 40 years. Plenty of people grow up with this fantasy of, “We’re going to do it like Roger Corman did it,” as that sounds so fun. If you make something small, goofy and exploitative, it’s nowhere near the guaranteed moneymaker it might have been 40 years ago. If you look at the way the world works now and money is made, it doesn’t seem that fun. Maybe that’s just a mental block I have and I need to get over that and find that corner where you can make money and still have a good movie. – Andrew Bujalski • I want to be successful and I want people to hear the music and I want to make money at it, but if it isn’t what you do, eventually it seems like that will cause you to not be able to do what you do. If you did that for a couple years, you would just become someone else, which is fine, I guess…but I don’t want to become someone else. I want to do what I enjoy and what feels right. – Will Oldham • I was just shitty, shitty, shitty with money and I finally, when I really started making money, I had to get somebody to sit down with me and learn how to manage my money. – Miriam Shor • I went to the University of Georgia for a year before I left, and then I went to live with Eileen Ford in New York for the modeling agency. I thank god I could do that because all the other kids were getting jobs doing other things, and when I got to New York, I was very blessed. I didn’t have to stop and be a waitress. I started making money at a very young age and was just very lucky. – Kim Basinger • I will bring our energy companies back. They’ll be able to compete. They’ll make money. They’ll pay off our national debt. They’ll pay off our tremendous budget deficits, which are tremendous. – Donald Trump • I’d much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you’ll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you’ll realise that you’re a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system. – Jaron Lanier • Ideas don’t make money, effort does. – Mike Michalowicz • If 5000 people bought my record, I would appreciate those 5000 people. I make music for them because music isn’t supposed to be so money driven. I didn’t get into the music game because I wanted to make money. I sing because that’s a God given talent of mine and it’s something I love to do. If it’s 10,000 or a million people, I’m going to give people the music they like from me. That’s what being an artist is. Whoever likes your work, that’s who you do it for. – Marcus Ramone Cooper • If a lot of money goes into the stock market, it’ll push up prices, making money for stock speculators. Then the insiders can decide that it’s time to sell out, and the market will plunge. – Michael Hudson • If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won’t. – Joyce Hall • If a movie makes money, then it’s a success. – Wade Eastwood • If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel. – James Ellroy • If it’s all win-loss, then you do whatever you can to win and to make money and to beat the deal. – David Brooks • If organizations are focused on a purpose, something that will make the world a better place and leave a big impact, people can rally behind that mission. If a company is only about making money, it’s hard to unleash passion. If there’s a big WHY that the company is working to solve, passion will flow like the amazon. – Josh Linkner • If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave. – Virginia Woolf • If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don’t need tax loopholes to make money. – James Surowiecki • If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating. – Jesse Lauriston Livermore • If the only thing that you want to do is make money – if that’s your whole motivation – I think you’re lying to yourself. If the only motivation you have is to make money and make it, what’s making it? Oh, you get a yacht or an island. Well, you’re going to need someone to be on that island. You’re going to need people, one way or another. – Willis Earl Beal • If there’s no deals being made rappers, what happens to the lawyers. They’ve got to close their firms, they can’t make no money. How can they make money from the client now? Litigation! – RZA • If you become famous and you start making money, then people want to give you things. It’s the exact opposite of how it’s supposed to be. – Joel McHale • If you can’t figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion? – David Heinemeier Hansson • If you go into acting to make money then you’re an idiot. It’s my hobby and the fact that I’m doing my hobby for a job is mental. – Jeremy Irvine • If you make money back from your record, you’re doing it smart. It’s an expensive hobby. I’m lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties. – Robyn Hitchcock • If you only have the mind of, “We have to sell this music and I have to make money on this music,” then it’s not really about the music anymore; it’s about the money. I’m not saying I don’t want to make money, but I’m thinking a little more long-term than just making a buck today. – Anoop Desai • If you’re not familiar with it, a college degree is a thing that we tell our kids to buy with money they don’t have, in hopes that it will help them make money they might earn, which will give them the ability to pay back the money they spent in order to make the money they’re paying it back with. – Matt Walsh • If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker’s bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich. – Eric Ries • If you’re good at the art and you wanna make money, then it’s fine. But if you’re just doing it because you know you’re gonna make money, then I don’t know. Some people do it just because they need the money, but it depends on a lot of things. – Bishop Nehru • If you’re the kind of kid who thinks that all that’s important in life is making money, Wall Street is probably still the place to go, especially now that Trump’s elected. – Michael Lewis • If you’ve got the money, you need people to make money with your money. And if you have the talent, you can always merchandise your talent to someone who’s got the money and make money. There’s two pieces to it: talent and money. – Barbara Corcoran • I’m always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money. – Patricia Heaton • I’m fascinated with the attitude of younger rock bands, even ones that are making money at it. I don’t ever hear them talk about it as a “career.” It almost makes me think there isn’t even a music industry anymore, like an atom bomb fell and it was just eradicated forever. – Travis Morrison • I’m free of stress and worries now because if I don’t like something I’m doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money – when I grew up so poor, ya know? – Jenny McCarthy • I’m not interested in making money. It’s just that with my talent, I’m cursed with it. – Noel Gallagher • I’m not into fame. I’m not into making money, outside of financing my books. I’m not into status. My thing is basically about time – not wasting it. – Henry Rollins • I’m not really interested in making money. – Steven Spielberg • I’m not trying to make friends, I’m trying to make money. – Kevin O’Leary • 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. – Stephen Baldwin • In Europe, where we have all these different forms of financing and cultural funds and systems like that, it’s a good mixture of supporting artists to make movies. But, on the other side, everyone still wants to make money making movies. Again, even in the European film business, it’s expensive to make movies. – Baran Odar • In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn’t very good at it. – Adam Carolla • In my opinion, the greatest misconception about the market is the idea that if you buy and hold stocks for long periods of time, you’ll always make money. Let me give you some specific examples. Anyone who bought the stock market at any time between the 1896 low and the 1932 low would have lost money. In other words, there’s a 36 year period in which a buy-and-hold strategy would have lost money. As a more modern example, anyone who bought the market at any time between the 1962 low and the 1974 low would have lost money. – Victor Sperandeo • In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business relations, to a principle which had been a real and intimate part of my family upbringing. Our idea was to make money and build business through serving the community with fair dealing and honest value. – James Cash Penney • 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. – Theo de Raadt • In the beginning, me and my bandmates just did stuff on our own – we had smoke bombs, we’d dress as crazy and as weird as we possibly could, just to give ourselves a different ambience. But when we started making money, of course, the ideas started getting bigger. We were big fans of Broadway; we were like, “Man, when you go see a Broadway show, you just get pulled right out of reality; you’re into their world for a two-hour period. It would be nice if we could do that onstage with a music concert”. – Philip Bailey • In the middle of the last century there was a reason to go to war. This time around the war was a really bad idea and I think the only people that benefited from it were Halliburton and people that made money from it, but that’s not an excuse to have a war. Killing American kids so Halliburton can make money is not a righteous reason to go to war. – Anthony Kiedis • In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed… All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement. – Lady Gregory • It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it? – Larry Hagman • It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money. – Hillary Clinton • It is a fearful environment where no one can trust to pick up a stranger, or a stranger cannot trust to get in a car. That search I find lacking. That openness. Right now, we have got ourselves stuck in one thing, which is make money as fast as we can, because it is hard to live in this world without it. Let us face it. – Chris Noth • It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. – W. H. Auden • It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules…It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it. – Nina Simone • It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is acting. I don’t believe it. I feel whenever you are doing a film, you are acting. So you need to be applauded for that. I won’t do art house cinemas. I want to make commercial films. I want my films to make money. – Bipasha Basu • It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power. – Pope Leo XIII • It makes it [work] a lot easier when you like what you do. It’s easy when you’re working and making money doing it. It’s hard when you’re not. That’s when that gets challenged. – Marc Blucas • It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars. – Carlos Ghosn • It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great ’30s film or a movie of David’s Lynch or some other director I love that could also make money, because that would say to the corporation, “Yes, you can make money and still do art.” But it’s tricky. – Laura Dern • It’s not that Monsanto is making money out of the blue. It’s making money by coercing and literally forcing people to pay for what was free. Take water, for instance. Water has always been free. We’ve never paid for drinking water. The World Bank says the reason water has been misused is because it was never commercially priced. But the reason it’s been misused is because it was wasted by the big users—industry, which polluted it. – Vandana Shiva • It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. – Albert Camus • It’s brutal. I see friends when their shows don’t work. Everything’s riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward. – David Spade • It’s obviously a lot more of a political undertaking making a movie in Hollywood and it’s a business there. In Australia, they don’t expect films to make money; whereas in America they’re counting on it. – Andrew Dominik • It’s OK, by the way, that it takes 10 years for you to make “money.” Since when was it that being in your mid-30s to make a few hundred thousand dollars or a million dollars was like egregiously unfair? I think we have to have a sense of perspective here. We’re all going to live into our 80s or 90s. So what is everybody in such a rush for? – Chamath Palihapitiya • It’s one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen? – Billy Eichner • It’s the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars. – Mickey Rourke • I’ve always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that’s the real test. – Robert Fulghum • I’ve figured out that I don’t want to spend all of my spare time trying to make money. But, with things like fame or internet presence – things you cannot cash in at the bank – there is still a sense that more is better and that your career should be following a certain trajectory. – Erika M. Anderson • I’ve had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I’ve had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I’ve had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them. – Judd Apatow • I’ve realized that although Valentine’s Day can be a cheesy money making stint to most people, it’s a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn’t have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated. – Reeva Steenkamp • Just being able to make exactly what I want with my brother and a lot of my best friend and to have a place like HBO that not only lets you do that, but supports you and puts up billboards in support of it, and really puts it out there for you. That’s not something I get a lot in the independent film world where everybody’s pinching pennies and nervous about whether it’s going to make money or not. – Mark Duplass • Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore. – Lucy Fisher • Long hair, short skirts, the girls like this image and try to make money with it. What they wear, how they behave, it’s all part of the business. Television and advertising have changed a great many things. In the old days, we used to make our money on the course. Now your market value is decided elsewhere. – Laura Davies • Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It’s money that’s dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money. – John Dos Passos • Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don’t have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from. – Fran Lebowitz • Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil. – Henry Fielding • Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher. – Alanis Morissette • Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock. – Nathan Myhrvold • Making money is awesome and fun as hell, but they’re saying, “Well, you’re offered a whole lot of money to do this,” and it’s like, well, I do want the money, but I don’t really do that – like headline a big festival or something like that. I could go there and do that, but it isn’t really what I do. It feels weird to me. – Will Oldham • Making money isn’t hard in itself… What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon • Making money isn’t the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. – Warren Buffett • Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. – Dalai Lama • Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived. – Dalai Lama • Managers will work for a salary. Entrepreneurs create new businesses. Many people have capital, but instead of making money for business they build houses for rent. It’s easy money to collect rental. – John Gokongwei • Many chefs of a certain caliber do not see me as a chef. I don’t have a restaurant. They see me as a TV food personality, not a chef. I’ve gotten respect, trust me, they respect me, but I think that I can’t hit that particular level of respect from them until I have a successful Vegas restaurant that not only makes money but creates unbelievable food and a fabulous experience. I don’t think people think I can cook, and they don’t think I know what the hell I’m doing. – Giada De Laurentiis • Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven’t time to see other girls. – Doris Lilly • Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school. – Malin Akerman • Money follows art. Money wants what it can’t buy. Class and talent. And remember while there’s a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it. – Candace Bushnell • Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether…it should be maintained or abolished. – Frederick Douglass • Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money. – Benjamin Franklin • Most banks – with Deutsche Bank at the top of the spectrum here – have decided that they can’t make money lending to barrowers anymore, so they’re going to the second business plan: They lend money to casino capitalists. That is, to people who want to gamble on derivatives. – Michael Hudson • Most of this innovative new music doesn’t make money so it’s regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as “underground”. – Eddy de Clercq • Most people have no idea what cops really do. They think cops give you a speeding ticket. They don’t see the cops associating with professional criminals and making money in the process. They believe that when a guy puts on a uniform, he or she becomes virtuous. But people who go into law enforcement do so for the trill of wielding power over other people, and in this sense, they relate more to the crooks they associate with than the citizens they’re supposed to protect and serve. They’re looking to bully someone and they’re corrupt. That’s law enforcement. – Douglas Valentine • Movie is a near art form. It’s showbiz and people want to make money. And generally people are financing things because they think it will make money whether it’s a cable news show, a cable show, or a feature film, or whatever it is. So that’s the part of it that drives it, I think, is really the dollar. – Annette Bening • Music is a hobby, because I’m not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting. – River Phoenix • Mutual funds charge 2% per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another 3-4 percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals. I think it’s disgusting. It’s much better to be part of a system that delivers value to the people who buy the product. But if it makes money, we tend to do it in this country. – Charlie Munger • My body can’t put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore – my body is just not on the table that way anymore. – Christina Aguilera • My father thought sport was something fun – he didn’t know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: ‘Good, you can support not just yourself but me too’. – Haile Gebrselassie • My goal isn’t to make money, it’s to try and survive and make a point. – Marilyn Manson • My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So to make money in the summer we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco. – George Clooney • My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache. – Jack Ma • My parents didn’t want us on the streets or in trouble, so they thought the best thing was to have us work. I saw how we had to, during bad times, stretch the dollar. And during good times, we couldn’t spend it, because you never knew when the bad times were going to happen again. It gave me a great respect for how hard it is to make money. – Nikki Haley • Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that’s the part that’s both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I’m losing money. – Hilary Rosen • Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy. – Brian Blessed • No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real. – Peter Drucker • Nobody heeds danger when they’re making money. – James Cook • Not to say people shouldn’t get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic. – Jerry Saltz • Obviously businesses do not operate like an artists’ commune. Business involves deploying finite resources to achieve goals in a competitive environment to make money. That is something creative people understand. – John Kao • Of course we live in a world where we have to make money to eat so that’s always nice to be able to sing and make money but to do something I love and to be able to eat from…it’s great. – Jhene Aiko • Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use – which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing – for your mind is not on the music. You don’t swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound. – Alan Watts • Oftentimes, misunderstandings and antagonism surfaces most strongly when economic times are tough. And that’s not surprising. If everybody is working and feeling good and making money and buying a new house and a big screen TV, you’re less worried about what other folks are doing. – Barack Obama • Once you start making money you have to put things into perspective. – Rakim • Once you start making money, you can be an ass. But I am not an ass. I’m too lazy, that takes a lot of energy. – Wanda Sykes • One of the big things right now is the DJ is a spectacle, isn’t it? You have the enormous light show, smoke, explosions, and fire. There’s a dude with a USB stick playing somewhere in there, but the spectacle is created out of lights and lasers and whatever. The original idea of DJing – being a shadowy figure in the corner while people were having a party – is not the one that makes money and is massively popular internationally. – Joe Goddard • Patience is a part of boxing. After I had missed out on the Olympic gold medal in 1984, a lot of people tried to talk me into turning professional quickly to make money. They told me that the next Olympics in Seoul would be boycotted again, that I was wasting my life, blah blah. But I still had unfinished business. I wanted the gold medal, and I got it in ‘88. Only then was I ready to turn professional. – Lennox Lewis • People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to know you’re not authorizing that book? As soon as you make a big stink about it it only makes the book sell more. – Diana Ross • People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we’re all going to starve, and it’s the machines that’ll get good. – Jaron Lanier • People showed me this way of dealing with music, writing songs, thinking about music and shows and our community and the fact that it doesn’t have to be about being popular or fashion or making money. – Chuck Ragan • People will download the music for free and they’ll pay for it if they want to give you a compliment. They don’t have to pay for it. And the only way the artist can make money was by touring ’cause the record label didn’t take that money. Unfortunately now, cause the record company’s not making money from the downloads, now they want to take money away from everything. – Joss Stone • Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation. – Steve Jobs • Quoting Demosthenes, ‘For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.’ I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arguing that no cost is incurred when employees are paid in stock options instead of cash. I am not kidding. – Charlie Munger • Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He’s very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says. – Henry Rollins • Shareholders are sort of like cats; they get herded around, and they follow the leader. With the exception of a few activist shareholders, there are a very rare number of big, important, influential shareholders that like to step up and say there’s a problem here, especially when they’re making money. – Andrew Ross Sorkin • So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live. – Alan Watts • So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don’t so I just let him have that. But it’s got to be something I understand. It’s got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It’s got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it’s got to be a price that makes sense. – Warren Buffett • So when you do board, the first class people, they’re sitting there. A lot of them are working as your boarding. They have computers out and calculators. They’re looking up at you like, Hey, we’re making money right now! – Brian Regan • Some of the bigger companies seem to be copying only to make money, which creatively is very bad. I sometimes wonder if they have any respect. – Hiroshi Fujiwara • Some people say I’m saying what they wanna say. Some people don’t agree. Some people are outraged. Some people want to see what the album is about. To me, hip-hop’s been dead for years. We all should know that, come on. With that being said, then, the object of the game now is to make money off of exploiting it. That’s what it’s all about – get this money. That’s basically what I’m saying. – Nas • Some people start modeling because they want to be models and they want the parties and the recognition, and then there are people like me. I come from a simple family, and for me getting into modeling was a chance to make money and create a business. – Gisele Bundchen • Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don’t want to just collect more fuel. – Brad Bird • Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. – Henry Ford • Studios are attracted by making money, and they’re also trying to simplify things, going with the genre thing. The gambling instincts of a few years ago where you might make some thousands or a few hundred, it’s nothing now. – Peter Weir • Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do. – Wayne Dyer • That one person that says “I heard your stuff and I really like this.” It really touches my heart because it’s what I love to do. I’d rather do it for the people than do it for a machine, a company that just wants to make money. – Tiffany Villarreal • That’s the thing with independent cinema: They all get good reviews, and they don’t make money. Some of them are good. Some are great. And some are terrible. – Robert Englund • The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money. – Donnell Rawlings • The best thing is to motivate people to do their own work. I’m not opposed to making money. But I started to play rock ‘n’ roll to motivate others, to shake things up, wake people up and to let other skinny, pimply marginalized weirdos know they’re not alone. – Patti Smith • The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I’ve seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed. – Ross Perot • The book ‘Do You!’ is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you – then the freedom comes. And we’re only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn’t make happy. – Russell Simmons • The bureaucratic nature of both capitalism and our government assures us that there are no checks and balances when it comes to justifying any and all behavior that either makes money and secures the supposed peace of the nation-state. – Tripp York • The corruption will come back to haunt the Trump administration. But mostly, it’ll come back to haunt the American economy, as companies decide they can make money by rent-seeking, by getting money from government rather than earning it the old-fashioned way. – David Brooks • The difference between capitalism and feudalism is that under capitalism, they make money directly through wages, manufacturing, and commerce and under feudalism, it’s directly through juro-political means. – David Graeber • The film is not a success until it makes money. It’s only good when there’s a dollar figure attached to the box office. – John Cusack • The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. – A. J. Liebling • The gallery closed its doors in 1971. I could no longer psychologically handle the needs of 12 artists. I cared about all of them, and what was happening with their careers. I’m just not a person who can do that indefinitely. And tax-wise I was concerned because they gallery wasn’t making money; it was losing money. – Virginia Dwan • The goal of Apple is not to make money but to make really nice products, really great products. – Jonathan Ive • The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it. • The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.- Gore Vidal • The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don’t make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don’t pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor’s appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don’t make any money. – Michael Moore • The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. – Henry Ford • The impresario function is about intervening with the company’s more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company’s need to make money. And finally, it is about positioning the fruits of the creative process in the marketplace and selling them. – John Kao • The key to investment success is emotional discipline. Making money has nothing to do with intelligence. To be a successful investor, you have to be able to admit mistakes. I trained a guy to trade who had a 188 IQ. He was on “Jeopardy” once and answered every question correctly. That same person never made a dime in trading during 5 years! – Victor Sperandeo • The level of musicianship in New York is the highest in the world. It’s tough to get into. You start gigging making 50 dollars a night, or playing for nothing to get to something. It’s insane. It’s like being a modern dancer, or something – the hardest thing to make money from. – Jose James • The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don’t know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they’ll buy it if it’s selling. – Warryn Campbell • The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. – Josh Billings • The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make his life easier, preferably both. Also, you have to learn as much as you can about your chosen endeavor. – Bill O’Reilly • The music business is suffering because fewer artists are being invested in. Labels are putting in less money, taking fewer risks and signing half as many artists as they did 10 years ago. Everything is risk averse right now and there are two ways to deal with a business situation like this: either reduce your risk or increase your return. They’re reducing their risk to the bone and looking for ways with their 360 deals to increase their return. They’re still not making money. Artists are suffering. Labels, or music investors, are suffering. – Tom Silverman • The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn’t been making money. Labels are signing bands they trust as artistic entities, instead of cash cows. They’re signing bands because they believe that the bands have tastes beyond anything they could concoct themselves. – Caroline Polachek • The old model of the industry was founded largely upon business folk trying to make money off artists. At EMP, we let the music make the money, not the other way around. We have flipped the model to make the artistry be at the forefront of everything we do. Music makes the business and that’s what makes it work. – David Ellefson • The only reason to do business is to make money; that’s the only reason for doing business. – Kevin O’Leary • The only reason to go into business is to make money. You have to work hard at it. If you’re not passionate about it, you’ll burn out so fast that it is incredible. – Dave Ramsey • The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs. – Jimmy Webb • The point has always been to make music, it’s not like I’ve always been running a giant money making scheme. – Girl Talk • The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them. – Peter Lynch • The reason I do Shark Tank isn’t to try take make more money of the deals, even though every deal I want to make money off of and even more so I want the entrepreneurs to be very successful and make money, but Shark Tank sends a message to everybody that the American Dream is alive and well. – Mark Cuban • The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free. – Tom Hodgkinson • The reason or motivation you have for making money or creating success is vital. – T. Harv Eker • The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase “ill-gotten” might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful. – Richard Dawkins • The studios don’t seem to foster good writing. They’re not so interested in that, but they’re more interested in what worked most recently. They’re definitely very serious about making money, and that’s not a wrong thing, but you don’t have to make money the same way all the time. – Bill Murray • The U.S. Treasury can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time. So when Merrill Lynch sells a bunch of mortgage-related assets at 22 cents on the dollar like they did a month or so ago, the buyer goes – is going to make money, and he’s going to make a lot more money if it happens to be an institution like the U.S. government which has very, very cheap borrowing costs. – Warren Buffett • The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that’s the other reason that they’re fighting it is the corporate prisons they have now. Because they’ve privatized all our prisons, corporations have to make money, and the only way they can make money is, I believe, the prisons have to be at least 80-90 percent full. That’s why the United States – which is home of the brave, land of the free – we have more people in prison than any other country in the world. – Jesse Ventura • The way the Europeans work, most girls get paid by their federation; their country pays them. Essentially the federations say go represent our country, race on whatever trade team you want, and here’s your money. So you don’t really make you’re money on trade teams. Europeans make money through their country’s federation. There’s not a lot of money for women in cycling in Europe either. – Kristin Armstrong • The way we make money as a group is that we don’t pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations. – Joel Greenblatt • The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film. – Vin Diesel • The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is necessary to please as many people as possible, to amuse them, to entertain them – in short, to do everything that will help increase the volume of sales. – Dagobert D. Runes • The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. – Karl Marx • Then there was communism’s weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn’t take all the money away from all the people since all the people don’t have money. We should take all the money away from only the people who make money. Then, when we run out of that, we could take more money from the people who…hey, wait! Where’d you people go? What do you mean you’re “tax exiles in Monaco?” – P. J. O’Rourke • There are a lot of true culturalists who respect where they’re from, but you have some who are just all about the benjamins, like, “I wanna get my money, I wanna get mine, you get yours, more power to you,” and they don’t care. That deals with the whole thing of life, whether you’re agreeable or disagreeable, the yin and the yang, the evil versus good. That’s how it is in the music industry. There are people who care for the whole culture and what they’re doing, and have love for it, and are not into just making money. – Afrika Bambaataa • There is a terrible thing that’s been happening probably for the last 20 years or so and it’s called the music business. And music isn’t really business; it’s work and you got to pay and you’ve got to buy your guitar or go into the studio. So there is a business side but when people say, “I’m going into the music business,” it’s not. It’s about expression. It’s about creativity. You don’t join music, in my mind, to make money. You join it because it’s in you; it’s in your blood stream. – Gavin Friday • There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money. – David Tepper • There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, ‘Hey, let’s just make money,’ because it doesn’t work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it. – Yoko Ono • There isn’t any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn’t is a fool. It’s a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money. – Sydney Pollack • There were a lot of video store owners and managers out of work, once pornography became more about streaming and downloads. But the other thing is that there are a lot of people who make money by finding a place to stand and add almost nothing. It’s particularly ironic if your job title is pimp. On some level, in a healthier world where sex work could be rationalized and the risk reduced, your whole job title would be extraneous anyway. It’s not exactly a point of great grievance if you’re a pimp that suddenly your prostitutes don’t require the same level of reliance.- David Simon • There’re the causes where people are like, “What can you do for us? You guys have success and stature; you can make money for us and at the same time present yourselves to the public as altruistic and civic-minded.” So it’s an exchange. I don’t mind looking altruistic and civic-minded if we’re actually being that way. – Kim Thayil • There’s all of the DVD extra material and all these other pieces of information that don’t fit into a 90-minute experience, but it’s still content and people still want to see it. It’s being open to [the fact that] the business is changing and being open to how you can make money to afford you to stay in business to keep making new things. I think you just have to have an open mind and be really smart about stuff and not be so locked into the conventional way of how the process used to go. – Alex Stapleton • There’s more empathetic representations than we’re used to seeing. I honestly feel like in the early days of Hollywood, women did have those. Women had very traditional roles in society of wife and mother, but when they went to the movies, they got to see women be, like, really cool, amazing characters and femme fatales and all of this. And then there was just this systemic reaction where it was all about, “How do we make money?” And everybody wants to sell things to boys. And then women’s entertainment became devalued in a way that I think is disrespectful and hurtful. – Elizabeth Banks • There’s so much great TV and I always thought it would be such a fun little sideway to make money and then not have to worry about my films making a lot of money. – Lynn Shelton • There’s such an emphasis on making money that we’ve really taken the humanity out of business. – Paul Tudor Jones • There’s the complex categorization of low warmth/high competence. This is the hostile stereotype of Asian Americans by white America, of Jews in Europe, of Indo-Pakistanis in East Africa, of Lebanese in West Africa, of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia, and of the rich by the poor most everywhere. It’s the same low-high derogation: They’re cold, greedy, clannish – -but, dang, they’re sure good at making money and you should go to one who is a doctor if you’re seriously sick. – Robert M. Sapolsky • There’s very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money when they can make films that make huge money. – Henry Selick • These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor raked in quite a bit of cash that she may have put, for all I know, to good uses, or maybe not. I just don’t know. But I don’t think she was any great literary breakthrough. – William A. Rusher • Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would… make money. – Robert Redford • Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is easy to come by, growth is easy, sometimes what you focus on is, you know, how to accelerate in the boom. During economic crises, the question is, the companies that come out of, you know, that are sailing through that with the best liquidity, both assets on the balance sheet, making money, ability to grow their businesses, get a disproportionate competitive advantage. – Reid Hoffman • To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep. – David Bailey • To most observers, innovation is a solitary process that requires creativity and genius, perhaps even greatness. It can’t, in their view, be managed or predicted, just hoped for and, perhaps, facilitated. But for me innovation was and still is more than that. It was a battle in the marketplace between innovators or attackers trying to make money by changing the order of things, and defenders protecting their cash flow. – Richard J. Foster • Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult. – Jack Ma • Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He’s nice-looking; he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I’d do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money. – Miles Davis • True divine guidance asks you to focus on service. False guidance is more ego-oriented, more about what’s in it for you – for example, more focused on making money for its own sake. True guidance may help you make money, but it won’t focus on that. – Doreen Virtue • Typically, we make money when we buy things. We count the profits later, but we know we have captured them when we buy the bargain. – Seth Klarman • We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies. – Walt Disney • We lost our way a long time ago with technology. Just because something is an advancement by going digital – that was a huge (expletive) mistake. It was a way for people to make money, but it sure didn’t improve sound or quality of record making. It made it faster, cheaper, but it isn’t as durable. – John Mellencamp • We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism – it’s the downfall of capitalism. Self-interest, maybe, but self-interest run amok does not serve anyone. The core value of conscious capitalism is enlightened self-interest. As Jim Cramer on CNBC says, “Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered.” – Patricia Aburdene • We need to throw the resources at this that are necessary. But like I say, we are not spending money. I mean, if we buy these assets intelligently, the United States Treasury will make money. I mean, it’s borrowing money. It’s just a few percent a year. – Warren Buffett • We pay a subsidy. Money coming over the border, they’re – there are so many ways that Mexico makes money with us, Bob. There are so many different ways, five in particular, that we will take it out of there. – Donald Trump • We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China… and it becomes this shell game. – Michael Moore • We should note it is not illegal for the campaign to pay [Doanld] Trump owned businesses as long as they`re charging fair market rates. And while the optics are pretty stunning, we shouldn`t be surprised. Afterall, this is the guy that told Fortune magazine in 2000 it`s very possible I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it. – Chris Hayes • Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. – Roger Wicker • Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money! – Joe Biden • Well, TV does a better job. In film, the justification has been that movies focused on stories or featuring people of color don’t make money. – Joe Robert Cole • We’re not ignored by The Guinness Book Of Records, but we’ve been largely ignored by the media during our lifetime. If you read any article, no mention is ever made of Pink Floyd. We’re never included in the same sentences as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who. I wrote ‘The Wall’ as an attack on stadium rock – and there’s Pink Floyd making money out of it by playing it in stadiums! Pathetic. They spoiled my creations. – Roger Waters • What I think people should realize is that programs like Social Security, programs like Medicare, programs like the Veterans Administration, programs like your local park and your local library – those are, if you like, socialist programs; they’re run by [and] for the public, not to make money. I think in many ways we should expand that concept so that the American people can enjoy the same benefits that people all over the world are currently enjoying. – Bernie Sanders • What I want to do is make films that astonish people, that astound people, and I hope you want to do that too. It’s easy to make money. It’s easy to make films like everybody else. But to make films that explode like grenades in people’s heads and leave shrapnel for the rest of their lives is a very important thing. That’s what the great filmmakers did for me. I’ve got images from Fellini, from Bergman, from Kurowsawa, from Bunuel, all stuck in my brain. – Terry Gilliam • What I want to try to prove is that artistic games, when done properly, can still be a commercial success. By doing that, I will be able to essentially shift the industry and create more opportunity for people to create artistic games. In a way, making money is important for us right now. Not because we need it, but because the industry needs it. – Jenova Chen • What I’m angry about, and I’ve gone on record saying this, is I think that financiers get away with murder. They realize they can get something for nothing and they won’t settle for anything else. There’s something called a Schedule F. If I work for a Schedule F contract that basically means I’m doing the movie for free because by the time I pay all my commissions and taxes there’s barely anything left for me to live on. This whole notion that you do work that you love for very little money and then you go out and do something you hate to make money. – Michael Shannon • What most interests me is human connection, whether it’s on the street, in community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money. – Ben Sollee • What’s so great is that we’re making money for AIDS in Africa. There’s a lot of love and spontaneity, we’re doing something creative. That’s what I love about Red. It’s not just a charity, “Give us money, give us money.” It’s being innovative. Like here’s a show that you won’t see anywhere else and you can come and whatever you pay for your ticket it’s going somewhere. You can go and buy a pair of Armani shades, like Bono, but the money goes to Africa. It’s quite cool. – Gavin Friday • What’s wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It’s run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it. – M.I.A. • When China sends over their people to negotiate, they pick their meanest, smartest, most vicious guy; and these guys, they don’t play games. They don’t laugh, they don’t cry, they have no emotion. They just want to make money, and they just want to rip our country to shreds. – Donald Trump • When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no different than an aristocracy. It’s not created from the people in the middle of the streets, so to speak. It is created from a petri dish for the sake of making money, and it is undermining the longevity of the culture. – Chuck D • When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers. – Charles Koch • When father was younger than me he came to New York to be in musicals and was in a number of them. But he, at that time in his life, didn’t feel he could fully commit to a creative life – he had this voice in the back of his head that said, “I need to make money.” So that propelled him to open up an ice cream parlor, which then spawned into a number of different food businesses and took over his life for 20 years. – Peter Vack • When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time. – Matthew McConaughey • When I went out to shoot for the first time, I thought this was going to be about the prison industrial complex, purely about prison for profit and the ways in which there’s an industry making money and profiting off punishment. – Ava DuVernay • When it comes to the Federal Reserve, there’s an awful lot of books out there; in my library, I bet I’ve got 200 books if I’ve got any on the Federal Reserve. And we don’t need any more books, we need action, and that’s what the Liberty Dollar did, it gave people a way to take action. Our catch phrase was you want to “make money, do good, and have fun,” and people really responded to that. – Bernard von NotHaus • When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you can say the person that is in charge of the making money for the family is doing the right thing. – Dan Ariely • When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance. – Brad Pitt • When you never leave the literary biosphere, you forget how few people actually read books, and that in turn makes you start overestimating both your ability to make money and your relative renown, which has dangerous consequences: the first means you may end up in debt; the second means you may end up a horrid bore. – Hanya Yanagihara • When you tell filthy jokes as if they were all really serious, and happening all in the life of one family, it becomes a farcical situation. Imagine if you had a script that was imposed on your life – we all do in a certain way, from society, or family, the need to make money, biology, death. But you will have a certain latitude, or freedom, to read the script in your own way. – Momus • When you’re dealing with people in an industry that’s all about making money, they push you farther than you really wanna go. – Lil’ Kim • Whenever you have consolidation, you do that for more economies of scale and leverage in making deals. But when you start losing control, like with the web, you lose some of the benefits. You can’t hold films or records back anymore because the internet has made everything available as soon as it’s available. Record labels have to learn to make money, and that’s moved from a control model to a collaborative world. When I talk about hobbyists, those are consumers wanting to be creators. But maybe one or two of them could become the next superstar, but I can’t wait for that. – Tom Silverman • Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not ashamed of it; the fact that people will pay money for my goods and services shows that my work is useful. – Robert A. Heinlein • Windows isn’t supposed to make sense, it’s supposed to make money. – Paul Lutus • With the money I’m making, I should be playing two positions. – Pete Rose • Without market prices for capital goods, accounting is not possible. You don’t know if you are making money or losing money, saving resources or wasting them, doing the right thing or not doing the right thing. – Llewellyn Rockwell • Women spend 80 cents of every dollar in the marketplace. We could be the most powerful force for economic and environmental change in the 21st century if we focused our money where it could make the biggest difference. If a million people did that, it would have a $1 billion impact. – Diane MacEachern • Wrapping rubber bands around a watermelon is not journalism. It is entertainment. But the key to success in media has always been a broad mix of serious reporting and entertainment. The New York Times does not make its money on reports about Iraq and Syria. It makes money on its gardening section, food and, yes, stories about cats. “The Today Show” is a very successful program because it is a mix of the celebrity chef and the crazy pet who does the rolls and serious news and interviews. – Henry Blodget • Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks. – Al Franken • You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I’ve made lots of money making fun of me. – Glenn Beck • You can make money without doing evil. – Sergey Brin • You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you. – Maya Angelou • You can’t make money with a consensus accurate prediction. – Bill Gurley • You can’t make money without selling something real. You can’t make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can’t have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings. – James Altucher • You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are. – Spike Lee • You know, Steve Jobs came to the music industry and pitched them the idea and they kept shootin’ him down and shootin’ him down, and now he makes money off the whole music industry regardless. Which is a minor part of his empire, ’cause obviously it’s gadgets that make him all of his money. But regardless, he has basically monopolized the music game. – Pitbull • You make a living from 8 to 5, but you make money from 5 to 8. – Bill Kraus • You make money when you get visitors to go through the entrance at capacity. – Michael J. Silverstein • Young black men had an opportunity to make money that they had never made before, so why not be flashy? I’m not mad at the flash. It just needed to be balanced. – Styles P • You’re always hoping you can attract a bigger audience, but at the same time, I’d hate to give up what I write. If I could write Chick Lit or something like that and make money off it, that’d be great. But I just can’t do it. – Donald Ray Pollock • You’re either making money or you’re not. If you’re not making money get out of the business. – Meredith Whitney • You’re Mexican until you make money and then you’re Spanish. – Lee Trevino

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Hi All!First, I want to say that I truly enjoyed this sub...sometimes. Alot of folks that start comapnies or sold and just give vague information and want a congratulations. The info I really ever looked for was the tools, daily execution, customer side, delivery of the business in detail. I guess everyone is afraid someone will steal their idea and rightly so. I am here to tell you that I am closing my business and want to provide value to someone who wants to go out and make it.About me- I started a mobile BRAKE mechanic business where I come to your home or office and fix your brakes on your vehicle. I operated for about 5 years and have been operating part/full time ever since.​Why am I'm closing??- I have a great full time job, flexible Work from home schedule and 2 daughters who are growing up fast. I always toyed with the idea of running my business full time and KNEW it would be successful, but always scared to make the jump because of stability, benefits and other factors known as the golden handcuffs. Also, I love my kids and after working my 9-5 and running home to change and get out the door to fix someone's brakes.... it just became too much for me. I was tired, exhausted and questioned if it was truly worth it. I wanted to enjoy Soccer, gymnastics and anything else I could after work but everything else came second. Also, I put my full time job in Jeopardy many times trying to do both. In the end, I sold my van, feel great because I get to workout more, spend more time with my GF, focus on my full time job and don't have the stress of running around in Northern Virginia Traffic trying to get parts and then to someone's house.​The Mobile Brake Business- Basically I traveled out to customers houses, inspected their brake pads and rotors and let them know if they needed changed. Sounds simple right? It is! If you have ever fixed brakes before and understand the two bolts to change pads and the 4 bolts to change the rotors... you are gold. You can work on EVERYTHING from a civic to a corvette. If you don't know how to do this but want to learn, just use YouTube.... If you still can't find it there, then this business isn't for you.Tools you need for the jobs-​Suv or small Transit van. I used my Nissan Xterra and then upgraded to my transit connect van. You don't need anything fancy!3 Ton jack and Jack Stands- Go to Harbor Freight and get the aluminum one since it's lighter than the steel one because you will be moving this thing a lot!Cordless Impact Drill- I bought a Bosch 21V impact that torqued up to 550Ft Pounds and that was more than plenty. It also can loosen ANY bolt or lug nut. I think I spent $400 on that thing and it paid for itself after one job.1/2 Drive and 3/4 drive wrench with the basic sockets to go with it. Up to 19MM in most cases- that's fine.Box end and circular end RATCHET wrenchesFlat head screw driversBrake CleanerRagsU clamp- to push the brake caliper piston back in once you are putting it back together.I'll update this later, I want to get to other things.....​Marketing- I have Yelp and Google! These will be crutch and very crucial to get rolling. I also used Craigslist HEAVY in the beginning and did brakes jobs for almost nothing to get a 5 star review and earn a customer. Everyone hates YELP marketing but the ROI for the $300 bucks you spend is amazing.Example of yelp's marketing- I paid them for a $300 ad budget, the cost per click to my page was $12.00. So if someone clicked on my page in took away $12 from my $300. In short I made my money back for the MONTH on 1 job, 1 JOB! In addition to that, I made over $4,500 in profit from yelp ads in 1 month. In short- Get on Craigslist, Yelp, Google business page and Facebook. i never used social media...but I heard it's helpful.Feel free to look me up. Search "Brake Time" and Location- Bristow, Va.My competition in that area is The Brake Squad (I was their first employee before I started my own) and Brake Masters. There are 3 mobile based business with over 5 million cars in a 30 mile radius. The upside to capturing business is HUGE.How did I Make money? Here is the transparency I would love to see from other business's but never get it. This is my pricing structure. I charged way less in the beginning before I was paying taxes and was really small. Keep in mind, this price was ALL-Inclusive of Parts, labor, Warranty, etc. I charged between $150-180 LABOR only per axle. That number was fluid because I would charge more to work on German and non Domestic Cars.​Front Brake pad replacement- Charged $225.00 Profit- ($180)Front Brake Pads and Rotors- Charged- 425.00 Profit- ($295)Front and Rear Brake Pads Replacement- Charged-380.00 Profit- ($320)Front/Rear Brake Pads+Rotors (Brake's all around)- $750- $850 ($500 or so, this would vary) Depending on the vehicle and cost of parts. In Parentheses is my PROFIT after Parts, Shop supplies but before Taxes... so not a true net number. This is just a quick breakdown of what I would make per job.I could average around 3 jobs a day on the weekends and 1 job at night. Most weeks I walked away with over $1000.00. EASY. The most I ever made in 1 Week in $4500.00. That is a TON of work and very labor intensive, but the momey was nice. Let me tell you that this can be very profitable for someone who is willing to put in the work. It's LOW overhead and if you treat customer right they will call you time and time again.​I feel like I am missing a lot in regards to starting up and running the business operations but can answer questions you might have.This is a job where you need to be good in front of the customer, have excellent communication skills (Talk through payment and how the job went), also have decent mechanic ability and the patience for the backend. Marketing, answer customer inquiries, Finances, Taxes, etc. YOU need to be it ALL, but not right away. You will slowly learn everything through trial and error, I have had to give a few refunds and take some jobs on the chin until I figured it all out.​Honestly, I had the intention of typing everything out but I'm tired of typing, (I do this for a day job too) for the moment and can answer any questions. Feel free to DM me if you'd like.​Aaron

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Skyrim: Character Story

NOTICE: This is my story based around my character in the videogame, Skyrim. I am aware that the majority of this isn’t canon, but I created this story to give my character more depth and to give other characters more depth.

Name: Onyx Iotus (Pronounced Eye-Oh-Tiss)

Race: Breton

Gender: Male 

Age: 16-20

Birthday: 24th of Midyear

Onyx (Didn’t know his last name at the time) was dropped off at Honorhall Orphanage as a baby, and no one knows who his real parents are, and at no time does he want to look for his parents because he realizes that he became who he was without the help of parents throughout his whole life.

Throughout his time at the orphanage, he always got into trouble because ever since he was a baby, he had the mysterious ability to transform into a fox. He was able to sneak out of the orphanage and stroll the streets of Riften at night, but he never ventured outside the city walls due to fear of what could be out there.

On his 16th birthday, Riften was attacked by a group of pirates called the Blood Horkers, and the leader, Haldyn, along with his sidekicks, The Tusks, wanted to kidnap Onyx specifically for unknown reasons. This resulted with the death of many guards and Onyx’s only friend, Axle. Onyx managed to escape and ran all the way to the mountains all the way above Falkreath where he met Angi, a master archer. She trained him to become an expert archer and he was a natural, being able to hit a bullseye at 100 yards within a few days. 

After 4 days, a small group of Blood Horkers tracked Onyx to Angis camp, and they attempted to kidnap him. Angi fought them off, while he ran away, not knowing whether or not Angi won her battle, or was killed. He didn’t turn around and ended up running off of a cliff and landing in a large pile of Snow, passing out and sustaining many injuries. He woke up in the back of a cart being driven by a boy of 17. That boys name was Connor Haldfin and he took care Onyx for weeks at his home in Shor’s Stone. The two fell for each other within a day, and ended spending a lot of time together in secret, but were unable to be public with it because It was punishable by death in the holds controlled by Ulfric Stormcloak, the Jarl of Windhelm and leader of the Stormcloak rebellion against the Empire.

Eventually, one of Haldyns Tusks, Ragnar, accompanied by 5 men, found Onyx at Shor’s Stone, and raided the village, killing Connors mother in the process. Onyx with a handmade wooden bow and Connor with a stone dagger managed to eliminate all 5 men and Ragnar. They had a memorial for Connors mother, and then both him and Onyx set out to Whiterun to train with the companions so they can gain revenge on Haldyn for the death of Connor's mother and Axle.

The pair decided to cross into Cyrodil to get to Whiterun, and headed towards Bruma. They were going to enter Skyrim through the Bruma/Falkreath border, but they got caught in the middle of an Imperial ambush on Ulfric Stormcloak and many of his soldiers. Connor was shot in the leg and wounded, Onyx was knocked out cold, and they were both put into carriages, bound by the wrists, along with the many Stormcloak Soldiers. 

Onyx eventually woke up still in the same cart as Ulfric Stormcloak, a soldier, and a horse thief. They eventually stopped in Helgen and one by one were taken out the carts, and the executions started. Just as Onyx was going to be beheaded, a dragon attacked the town, and due to a building falling over, Onyx and Connor were separated. Onyx ended up escaping with an Imperial Soldier named Hadvar, and Onyx traveled to Whiterun, hoping to run into Connor, but after 3 weeks of living on the streets of the city and even joining the Companions, He never saw him. 

He eventually left Whiterun and traveled to the College of Winterhold, hoping to discover why he is able to transform into a fox (Turns out it was a moon curse that was given to him due to the position of the moons at the exact moment he was born). He ends up becoming a student prodigy, mastering every school of magic, and even learned to teleport. Three years pass and he learns of a prophecy that he set in motion upon entering Saarthal, an ancient Nordic ruin, speaking to a Psijic monk, and discovering a magical artifact later discovered being The Eye of Magnus. Onyx is then told that he needs an artifact called the Staff of Magnus for the near future. On his journey to find it, he discovers that the staff is in a ruin called Labyrinthian by using a focusing crystal that reveals great sources of power. He also discovered that he himself is a source of power, and he started to glow when activating the crystal. 

He was contacted by another monk and told to go back to the college, only to discover that Ancano, a Thalmor advisor at the college, has started to absorb the energy from the Eye. During conflict, the current Archmage, Savos Aren, is killed. Onyx is then sent to Labyrinthian and gains the Staff of Magnus. He then returns to the college, and battles Ancano, and discovers that he was sent by Haldyn to kill Onyx and destroy the College. Ancano is defeated by Onyx and Onyx is given the position of Archmage. From then on out, He used nothing else but magic to defend himself.

Onyx then set out on a mission to track down The Blood Horkers. He ended up becoming allied with many people and groups, including the Dark Brotherhood, and the Thieves guild. During his journey, he discovers that many of the Horkers are already dead bye an assassins blade, but he still eliminated many of Haldyn’s Tusks, including the Commander of the Penitus Oculatus, The Hound (An ex-member of the Companions), and even the leader of the Thieves Guild, Mercer Frey. Upon killing Frey, Onyx discovered a note revealing that the Stormcloaks are being secretly led by the Blood Horkers. 

Onyx decides to join the Imperial Legion in order to hurt the Blood Horkers badly. During this time, the Jarl of Whiterun, Balgruuf, only agrees to join the Empire if Onyx helps him with his defense on dragons. During this time, he slays a dragon attacking the Western Watchtower and discovers that he is a Dragonborn, which means he can absorb dead dragons souls and use their powers to expand his own. He also becomes the Thane of Whiterun for helping the city against a dragon, and befriends the entirety of the court, and becomes very close with Adrienne Avenicci, a blacksmith and the Stewards daughter.

He ends up climbing the ranks of the legion, and eventually becomes a right hand man to General Tullius. Finally, the Legion is ready to assault Windhelm. A few days before the assault, he travels to Nightgate Inn and finds the last person he’d think to see. Connor, his old lover. He discovers Connor wearing the colors of the Stormcloaks and they spar for a while, but somehow, Connor is able to deflect spell shot at him with his sword. Eventually Connor manages to calm Onyx down and explain himself. He explains that he befriended the stormcloak soldier that was sitting with Onyx during the dragon attack. After Connor escaped, he set out on a mission to find Onyx, but to no avail, as they were in Whiterun at different times. After not being able to find Onyx, he set out to avenge his mother and also hunted down the blood horkers, which explained why many of the horkers were already dead. He then revealed that he planned on joining the stormcloaks to infiltrate and kill ulfric. So they decided to work together, and Onyx went and told Tullius that they have a man on the inside.

The assault happens, and they make it to the palace, where Ulfric is waiting along with his right-hand man, Galmar Stone-Fist, and where Connor is also waiting. Tullius and Onyx approach him, and right when Tullius draws his sword, Connor puts his blade through Galmars chest, killing him. Onyx and Connor subdue Ulfric together, and allow him his last words. From which Ulfric tells them to seek out the east empire company, for they will help them reach Haldyn, and then Ulfric spits at Onyx’s feet, saying that he and Connor won’t survive long. Onyx then puts an ice spike through his chest.

They go to the East Empire Company in Windhelm and seek out Orthus Endario, who helps them discover that Haldyns hideout is on an island called Japhet's Folly. Both Onyx and Connor join a small army of Imperial soldiers and sail there, and both of them sneak into Haldyns quarters, where they fight. Eventually, Haldyn is subdued and he tells them the reason for wanting Onyx dead. The Blood Horkers were hired by the Aldmeri Dominion to kill him, because they are afraid of his power, and were afraid that he was going to become the next Talos, a man who turned into a god. They found out about Onyx’s power by using the same focusing crystal that he used in Mzulft to find the Staff of Magnus. Haldyn then asks them both to destroy the Thalmor, for everything that they’ve done. And they agree. Then they both put a dagger in Haldyn’s chest

Onyx, along with Connor, decide to travel to High Hrothgar to ask the Greybeards to help Onyx learn how to use his gift. They help him, and during his training, they meet a girl named Delphine who is a member of the Blades; A group of warriors devoted to guarding the emperor, but who were also dragon slayers. They team up and discover that the Black Dragon that attacked Helgen was named Alduin, and that he is resurrecting dragons that died thousands of years ago. Delphine then decides that Onyx and Connor need too infiltrate the Thalmor Embassy during a party thrown by the leader, Elenwen, and them seeing this as an opportunity to hurt the Thalmor, they agree to it.

They manage to infiltrate the embassy, and then they stole ALL of their records to date, and they also killed a bunch of thalmor soldiers, too. They then discover in their records that they are looking for another member of the blades who is holed up in Riften, named Esberns. The two manage to find him just before the Thalmor do, and all four of them set off for Sky Haven Temple, an old temple that was originally a hideout for the Blades. While there, Onyx and Connor learn that Onyx needs to learn a shout that makes dragons fall out of the sky, and they turn to the Greybeards for help.

While with the Greybeards, the pair learn that their leader is a dragon named Paarthurnax, who lives in seclusion on the peak of The Throat of the World, and that they need an elder scroll in order to learn the shout. With the help of Paarthurnax, the College, and a madman named Septimus Signus, they track down the scroll to an ancient Dwarven ruin. They get the scroll and bring it back to Paarthurnax, who tells Onyx that he needs to read it inside the Time-Wound, where time is slightly altered for an unknown reason.

Onyx reads the scroll inside the Wound, with Connor watching him, and he ends up getting a glimpse into the past, discovering that the shout that he needs was used by the heroes of old against Alduin, many many years ago. He also learns that Felldir the Old, one of the heroes, used the same Elder Scroll to send Alduin forward in time, since they couldn’t kill him. That’s why the Time-Wound existed, because that’s where Alduin emerged before he attacked Helgen. When Onyx’s vision ends, Alduin is waiting for him. A great battle enlists, Alduin vs. Onyx, Connor, and Paarthurnax. They manage to best Alduin, but he manages to escape. This is when Onyx and Connor decide that the dragons are a much greater threat than the Aldmeri Dominion, and decide to focus on Alduin before continuing with their personal vendettas.

The three come up with the idea to ask another dragon where Alduin resides, and in order to do so, they need to capture one. They go back to Sky Haven Temple and find the name of one Alduin’s closest allies, Odahviing. Then they enlist the help of Jarl Balgruuf of Whiterun, since Dragonsreach was originally built to capture a dragon. Onyx calls the dragon, using his Thu’um, and capture Odahviing. They learn that Alduin has retreated to Sovngarde, and the only entrance is in an ancient ruin named Skuldafn, only accessible to dragons. Odahviing agrees to take Onyx to Skuldafn, forcing him to leave Connor behind. They say a long, heartfelt goodbye, and Onyx departs on the dragon’s back. 

When Onyx arrives, he has to fight through many draugr and a few lesser dragons. He finally reaches the portal to Sovngarde and faces off with an ancient dragon priest named Nahkriin. He defeats him, and takes his magical mask as a souvenir. He enters Sovngarde, and reaches the great Hall of Valor, and gains the help of the ancient heroes of old, who defeated Alduin all those years ago. They go into the field outside of the hall, where Alduin is waiting. It takes a lot of strength and power, but Onyx manages to kill Alduin by making him explode with lightning. After his victory, a hero named Tsun, sends him back to Nirn. Of course there were celebrations to be had, but only one thing was on Onyx’s and Connor’s mind. Taking down the Thalmor. 

Weeks passed, and after tons of preparation, they decide to start going after the Thalmor again. They manage to gain tons of information, including who Elenwen’s closest advisor was. Ondolemar, a justiciar who infiltrated the court of the Jarl of Markarth. 

They travel to Markarth, and manage to kidnap Ondolemar and kill his other soldiers without anyone else knowing. Then they interrogate him. Through the interrogation, they discover that the source of Onyx’s powers aren’t because he is a Dragonborn. It’s because he is the descendant of a line of extremely powerful mages, dating back almost 1000 years ago to a hero named Alexandrite Iotus, who defeated Molag Bol when he tried to dominate Nirn, with the help of a close friend. The creator of the Aldmeri Dominion, Queen Ayrenn Aldmeri. Alexandrite was also one of the highest ranking members of the Dominion. (This takes place during the time of Elder Scrolls Online.) The Dominion used to be an honorable government power, who aided many countries with many issues, and of course, saved the world multiple times (Once again, different events during MY PLAYTHROUGH of Elder Scrolls Online). 

Ondolemar then tells them that Elenwen is staying at the Embassy for another week, and that that is the ONLY chance that they will get to strike. They take Ondolemar to Whiterun, and imprison him there, and inform Balgruuf of their plan. With his blessing, they set out for the Embassy. Their plan is for Connor to pose as a hunter, hunting for a fox, who happens to be Onyx, and chase the fox into the embassy, where Onyx infiltrates and assassinates Elenwen without any other casualties.

They get to the Embassy and Connor starts chasing Onyx while he’s in his fox form, but as they got close to the embassy, Connor is shot through the stomach with an arrow, and falls to the ground. Onyx, runs to him and he sees the light leave his eyes. Onyx becomes engulfed with rage, while he is still in his fox form, he loses control of himself. His vulpine body rises into the air, his eyes turning white. A ring of fire surround him and Connors corpse, and all the trees within a mile radius disintegrate and the snow melted. The walls around the embassy crumble, and the smalls crumbles rise into the air, and melt down into magma. The magma travels around, brutally killing all the soldiers outside. Then, the entire embassy and the inanimate objects turn to water, and that water moves around, drowning everybody that was inside the embassy, except Elenwen. After all the soldiers are killed, the water disperses, revealing Elenwen, showing her shocked face as she realizes who is causing this. Only one person in Tamriel has the ability to transform into a fox. While still in the air, Onyx transforms back into a fox, eyes remaining white. He teleported right in front of Elenwen. Elenwen didn’t have any fear in her eyes. She just cockily smiled, and took her knife, and slid into Onyx’s stomach. It didn’t even phase him. He looked down at it, look back up, and grabbed Elenwen’s neck. With a flash of light, they were all of a sudden hundreds of feet in the air, with the flooding down below looking like a small puddle, from where they were. Then the giant puddle took the form of a thin tower, and turned to ice, with its peak sharper than any needle. Then, Onyx dropped Elenwen, and without even screaming, she fell to her demise, and landed right on the peak of the tower, impaled. 

Onyx teleported back to the ground, his eyes turned back to normal, and he collapsed next to Connors body, sobbing. After an hour or so, he grabbed Connor body, and teleported to Whiterun, bringing his body to Balgruuf at his throne. 

A week has passed, and they traveled to Solitude, where the new emperor has been called by Tullius and Onyx, to discuss what happens, now that the Dominion has lost all foothold in Skyrim. After a long debate, the emperor takes out the White-Gold Concordat he kept in a chest, put on the stone ground, and threw a candle on it, burning it. 

A week passes, and Onyx is sitting near a river, next to two gravestones on the outskirts of Shor’s Stone. One has the name of Connor's mother, and the other one reads as follows. “Connor Haldfin. Hero of Skyrim, and Hero of Onyx Iotus”

A month passes, and Onyx is lined up next to thousands of Imperial soldiers, with Tullius next to him. They are on a massive field in Cyrodil, and in front of them, hundreds of feet away, are thousands of Aldmeri Dominion soldiers. 

A horn sounds, and the two armies charge for each other.