Does money motivate you to write?

I can only imagine that being able to do something that you enjoy in life and getting paid for doing it must be the ultimate joy. Perhaps many authors would agree. I wonder if most successful writers enjoy writing so much, that when starting out, money was secondary in their mind. The love or passion for writing is the motivation and the rewards are recognition and financial gain. Although I haven't reached that point of success, I can tell you that being able to have time to write is one of the most satisfying experiences. There is a feeling, perhaps pride, that you experience after successfully writing a good article. I don't know how one defines it, but I see a successful article as one that fits together smoothly from sentence to sentence. It is easy to read, and keeps your interest until the end. I don't know if there is a formula to use (I doubt it) but I believe it does requrie hard work and concentration, because you realize that every word is important. Using the appropriate words and in a specific order, enables the reader to create an image, a story. If it is true what they say about; "a picture being worth a thousand words," then perhaps we could say, "a thousand words is like a painting."