How do I make money in EVE?

There is an infinite number of ways to ways to make ISK (Eve‘s currency, Interstellar Kredits) in EVE. Some of them evolve around performing various tasks provided to you by the game. For example you can always make money by mining asteroids for materials to sell. You can also run all kinds of missions for NPC (Non Player Controlled, run by the EVE system) agents. You can hunt NPC pirates in some parts of space and you can explore unknown parts of space for hidden treasure.

Then you have the option of using your creativity, your social skills and your business skills to make money from your interactions with all the other people playing EVE online. Around 95% of every item or ship in EVE is made by the players from scratch and sold through EVE‘s central market system. You can start your own corporation to build items that are in demand and sell them to other people. You can also buy things when the price is low and sell them when the price is high or exploit other people‘s lack of time or patience by moving things around for them. In essence you are free to invent any service valuable to other players and market it for your own profit. Wherever you see an opportunity there is probably ISK to be made.