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If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that's essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually.

— Markus Persson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If someone is going to profit from your work, they need to earn it.

— Michael A. Stackpole

I never do anything for money; I get paid a lot of money as a by-product.

— Alan Dershowitz

Most tech companies do one trick and die. If you can do two or three or four, that's where wealth gets created.

— Mark V. Hurd

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

In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.

— Eric Schmidt

I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

— Larry Wall

When you create something that is popular, when you create a solution, you're an innovator, and you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money.

— Kim Dotcom

If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.

— Goran Ivanisevic

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

— Haile Gebrselassie

✗Opposing Perspectives

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