Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes

You don't do a business for pleasure: You have to make money.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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• President Obama has contempt for real money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Real
  • Money
  • President

• Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Want
  • Audience

• We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Business
  • News
  • Gathering

• I know I can't plan in this business, but I'm going to keep going as long as I keep getting close... So far, I feel lucky and infinitely grateful for the successes that I've had. I'm just going to keep working hard, and whatever happens, happens.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Long
  • Business
  • Working Hard

• I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • World
  • Country
  • Money

• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Job
  • Like
  • Feel

• When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Business
  • Want
  • Style

• Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Business
  • Name

• In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Money
  • First
  • Been

• The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Work
  • Money
  • Discovery

• There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Business
  • Show
  • Beat

• I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

  

  Larry David
  • Great
  • Money
  • Living

• Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • World
  • Business
  • City

• Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• I spend my money like I don't have anything.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Like
  • Spend

• 'Heaven's Gate' was based on a true story about the cattle people: the people who had the money turned on the settlers who were in the area. And it was mainly a defense of their behavior. And the cattlemen's association had just about declared war on these people who were poaching cattle, and because they were mainly immigrants.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.

  

  David Ricardo
  • Time
  • Different
  • Value

• We are not doomed to an ultimate conflict with no hope of resolution. The message of the Scripture is one of victory - full, final and ultimate victory. It is not our doom that is certain, but Satan's. His head has been crushed by the heel of Christ, who is the Alpha and Omega.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Hope
  • Victory
  • Christ

• There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Everything
  • Only
  • Sabbath

• You don't do a business for pleasure: You have to make money.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Money
  • Business