Elrey Borge Jeppesen Quotes

I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

Elrey Borge Jeppesen

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• I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Know

• The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Difficult
  • Year

• I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Business
  • Feel
  • Emotions

• I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Business
  • Look
  • Idiot

• Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Money
  • Sports
  • motivation

• I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • People
  • Money
  • Book

• I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.

  

  G-Eazy
  • School
  • Money
  • Education

• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Money
  • Never
  • Goal

• I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Time
  • Business
  • Best

• One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Money
  • Think

• I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Money
  • Care
  • Fame

• The one thing I know is, if I play good ball, things have tended to come along with it. Everything that I've ever done in my career has come off of playing good football. And so I realize I need to go out there, and I need to take care of my business; then everything else - all these cool, great things - come along with it.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Good
  • Great
  • Done

• Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Time
  • Money
  • Challenge

• It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Better
  • Start

• In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.

  

  Major Owens
  • Money
  • Society
  • Preparation

• What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Money
  • Simple
  • Start

• The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Business
  • First Amendment

• Before I'd even started doing music or having opportunities with my own music, I was studying production and business and stuff anyway. I knew there were so many jobs within the music industry - songwriting or session playing or working at a label - and I was really interested in how it all works.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Music
  • Business
  • Studying

• A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them can't reference a picture by the designer. Me, I say, 'The Balenciaga.' And I go to the shows. I feel like it's my business.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Business
  • Fashion
  • Hair

• I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

  

  John Guare
  • World
  • Money
  • City

• I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Forever

• In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

  

  Christien Meindertsma
  • People
  • World
  • Rest

• I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

  

  Elrey Borge Jeppesen
  • Money
  • Business
  • Old Age