Fedor Emelianenko

UFC is a moneymaking machine. The most important thing for this organization is a brand and its marketing. They have a couple of good fighters, and there are also some very good champions, but they are trying to keep everyone at the same level. The most important thing for them is the promotion, not the fighters.

Russian Athlete

Kathleen Kennedy

If all you're doing is playing it safe - trying to make the same movie over and over again - that's when the audiences say, 'Oh, this is just a moneymaking machine.' But if it's genuinely in service to the art form, then the franchise concept is being used in a way that's exciting.

American Producer

John Tesh

I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns.

American Musician

Jimmi Simpson

I got my degree in theatre at a little school in Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg University. It was one of those situations where I went into the major because I loved it, but didn't really expect to see it as a moneymaking situation or career.

American Actor

Tom Hodgkinson

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.

British Writer

Donna Summer

Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.

Bill Murray

One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal.

Pam Grier

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

American Actress

Alex Pareene

The conservative media movement exists primarily as a moneymaking venture.

American Writer

Cornelius Vanderbilt

I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.

American Businessman

Emphasizes a primary aim of making a good profit, often invoked in entrepreneurial contexts.

Commercial Focus

Implies that the activity, venture, or scheme is currently successful or expected to be.

Success Implication

Can be neutral or negative; may imply a focus on profit over ethics or quality.

Not Always Ethical

Generally associated with business activities or strategies aimed at profit accumulation.

Business Emphasis

Highlights an individual's drive to generate personal wealth, possibly overshadowing other values.

Personal Motivation

Moneymaking is often a gradual process, implying effort and strategy, rather than instant results.

Not a Quick Fix

 rewarding, not in the crass sense of moneymaking but in terms of making it worthwhile to indulge in the pursuit of knowledge, support the existence of knowledge-producing groups and intellectuals,