Earning famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.
-- A. A. Milne -
Its not about earning a paycheck, its about doing something good that you believe in.
-- Adam Kinzinger -
Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma
-- Alan Sugar -
One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.
-- Amar Bose -
A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.
-- Amy Goodman -
China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.
-- Andrea Jung -
To be serious, if we were only interested in earning big money then a politician would have to go and work in industry.
-- Angela Merkel -
To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.
-- Arne Duncan -
The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino -
If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
-- Barry Goldwater -
The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
-- Ben Feldman -
No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.
-- Bill Courtney -
Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
-- Brad Henry -
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
-- Brian Tracy -
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
-- Dallas Willard -
Earning a lot of money is not the key to prosperity. How you handle it is.
-- Dave Ramsey -
I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in that position. And I'm also careful. I save 38 percent of my earnings after expenses, before taxes.
-- David Duval -
The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.
-- David Hawkins -
Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.
-- Diane Cilento -
I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.
-- Donald Pleasence -
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.
-- Edward Dahlberg -
The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.
-- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -
Treat your career as a business. Invest your earnings into good tools that can enhance your business. Film businesses are the same as non-film businesses. Ploughing part of your earnings back into your filmmaking business would grow career exponentially.
-- Elliot Grove -
I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.
-- Eva Herzigova -
Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
-- Felix Dennis -
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
-- Ferdinand Mount -
Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.
-- Francis Parkman -
Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.
-- Gene Sarazen -
Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.
-- George S. Clason -
To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.
-- Grace Napolitano -
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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.
-- Hugh S. Johnson -
The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.
-- Ihara Saikaku -
I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.
-- James MacArthur -
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.
-- Jaron Lanier -
If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a model. I am an extremely private person and I do not have the temperament for fame. I think I was rather ashamed of this trivial way of earning a living.
-- Jean Shrimpton -
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.
-- Jo Walton -
When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
-- John D. Rockefeller -
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
-- Jon Corzine -
Identity is something that you are constantly earning.
-- Joss Whedon -
My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.
-- Keira Knightley -
No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could.
-- Kunal Nayyar -
Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it.
-- Lalu Prasad Yadav -
It's an earnings-driven market. The big question is whether the flow of earnings can rescue the market from the twin dreadnoughts of higher oil and interest rates.
-- Larry Wachtel -
Takeovers wouldn't cause the stock market to rise unless there is an upward reassessment of earnings (potential). People are more optimistic and confident about the future.
-- Lawrence Summers -
A lot of people think they'll be earning money like they are now for the rest of their lives. I think once you have that type of mindset, it's over.
-- Lee Joon -
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
-- Lillian Gish -
I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.
-- Lillie Devereux Blake -
In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.
-- Louis D. Brandeis -
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.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.
-- Markus Zusak -
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
-- Marlene Dietrich -
Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.
-- Martha Reeves -
Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
-- Matthew Macfadyen -
Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.
-- Max De Pree -
We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.
-- Mike Farrell -
Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a part of his earnings; to spend wisely and well; to save, but not hoard.
-- Neville Chamberlain -
I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.
-- Patrick Macnee -
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.
-- Paul Bettany -
No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.
-- Pele -
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.
-- Penelope Cruz -
The secret Ive lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And thats always my closet.
-- Polly Bergen -
I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint?
-- Prince Andrew -
An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.
-- Rembrandt -
Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by which to understand the worth of stocks....investors have no model or at best a very incomplete model of behavior of prices, dividend, or earnings, of speculative assets.
-- Robert J. Shiller -
I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it.
-- Robert Kiyosaki -
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
-- Robert Nozick -
It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
-- Sarah Dessen -
Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they’re paying more in taxes.
-- Simon Black -
Its important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
-- Tamara Mellon -
We must learn to separate need from greed...We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings.
-- Thomas S. Monson -
Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.
-- Umar -
Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly.
-- Walter Schloss -
Most look at earnings and earnings potential, well I can't get into that game.
-- Walter Schloss -
Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.
-- Walter Schloss -
One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings.
-- Walter Schloss -
If you don’t feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset’s future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability to evaluate every investment possibility. But omniscience isn’t necessary; you only need to understand the actions you undertake.
-- Warren Buffett -
I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat.
-- Wendy Davis -
Honoring your word is also the route to creating whole and complete social and working relationships. In addition, it provides an actionable pathway to earning the trust of others.
-- Werner Erhard -
When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.
-- William Hague -
What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.
-- William Inge -
Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.
-- William Raspberry -
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
-- Wislawa Szymborska -
I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.
-- Witold Gombrowicz -
Earning an education is not the same as gaining a skill set.
-- Ziad K. Abdelnour -
You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power
-- Zig Ziglar -
Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.
-- Darren Hardy -
Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.
-- David Rolf -
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.
-- Diane Garnick -
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.
-- John Maus -
Life is full of uncertainties. Future investment earnings and interest and inflation rates are not known to anybody. However, I can guarantee you one thing.. those who put an investment program in place will have a lot more money when they come to retire than those who never get around to it.
-- Noel Whittaker -
Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.
-- Paul Singer -
Learn something that is valuable to others. Learn everything about it. Then maximize your earning from that knowledge. And then start your own business. That is what you have to do if you want to become very wealthy.
-- Porter Stansberry -
Earning money is not a sin, and the bottom line is growth.
-- Rohit Shetty -
The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor -
Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.
-- Thomas P.M. Barnett -
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.
-- Geoffrey Moore
