Best 216 quotes in «earning quotes» category

Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it will force you into making decisions in the interest of earning your keep, as opposed to the interest of the thing itself.

Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

Mom was bossy. Even in print I could hear her tone, smugly congratulating me on already earning the prince's affections and telling me firmly to keep up whatever I was doing. Yeah, Mom, I'll just keep telling the prince that he has absolutely no shot with me and offend him as often as I can. Great plan.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically working people who have finally reached their peak earning years after many years of far more modest incomes-and now see much of what they have worked for siphoned off by politicians, to the accompaniment of lofty rhetoric.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

My first part-time job gave me the smell of earning money when I worked in a village chemist aged 14. I loved helping the pharmacist with prescriptions and on the shop floor, with its glamorous make-up aisle.

My goal is to buy a company at a low multiple to normal earnings power several years out and that the company earns good returns on capital at that level of normal earnings. A holding period of more than one year also works quite well as the factors are persistent in years 2 and 3.

Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.

Most look at earnings and earnings potential, well I can't get into that game.

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.

One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings.

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.

One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the gains of the rich people since 1945 have been "capital gains".

Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.

The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.

The cyberspace 'earnings' I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.

The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating.

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of the day, your job is to buy what goes up and to sell what goes down so really who gives a damn about PE's?

The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits over that period.

The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers came. They lived very modestly, spent only a fraction of their earnings for their households and put the rest back into the business.

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.

The goal of life is not the earning of money, but the service of God.p.114

The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It's dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young.

The only way an established enterprise can dramatically increase its stock price is by adding a net new high-growth earnings engine to its existing portfolio.

. . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.

The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

The pope [Francis] speaks with great passion about the shame we should all feel when, as he puts it, "a man does not have the dignity of earning bread for his family," but is turned into a peripheral person, a welfare client, a dependent.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

There are now businesses and entire industries that exist solely as a result of federal patronage. Profiting from government instead of earning profits in the economy, such businesses can continue to succeed even if they are squandering resources and making products that people wouldn't ordinarily buy.

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

There is no limit on earnings.

There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits.

The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.

Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.