#mon

Children are bad enough--children are rude, selfish, greedy, and unthinking individuals who are unable to distinguish between their own selfish wants and needs and the wants and needs of others. And adults are children with money, alcohol, and power. ↗

— Ian Sansom

#children #money

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#jon-snow #maester-aemon #winter

Lasting change cannot occur without transformation of the heart. ↗

— Nathan W. Morris

#inspiration #money #success #transformation #change

Will you show me what you really look like? You don't sparkle, do you? ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#hilarious #katy #sparkly #hilarious

There is all the different in the world between paying and being paid. ↗

— Herman Melville

#money

She's got an indiscreet voice," I remarked. It's full of--" I hesitated. "Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly. That was it. I'd never understood it before. It was full of money--that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbal's song of it....High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl... ↗

— F Scott Fitzgerad

#money

The goal was never to bear the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater ↗

— Walter Isaac

#money

Book authors are in high demand for speaking engagements and appearances; they are the new ‘celebrity’ and celebrities gain access. Authors not only make money from royalties or book advances but from their keynotes, presentations and strategically branded product lines. This includes entrepreneurial ideas for you to extend yourself beyond just writing and prepares you to add speaking and consulting to your revenue stream. You have to begin to look outside book sales and towards the speaking market. There are radio, interviews, news, television, small channel television keynotes, lectures, seminars and workshops. These types of events have the possibility to be much more lucrative than just selling books. In essence, the book builds and brands you in the public eye. It gives you credibility and the opportunity to be more than you are. It enables you to now be a voice, a teacher, a leader, an expert - after all, you wrote the book on it! ↗

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#book-power #branding #celebrity #passive-income #royalties

Politics isn't about big money or power games, it's about the improvement of people's lives. Paul Wellstone ↗

— Dr. Amy E. Black

#politics #money

Don't get politics mixed up in this. It's all about money and it makes no difference if the Social Democrats or the moderates appoint the ministers ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#stieg-larsson #the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo #money