Earning Quotes

Only the elites despise earning money.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

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

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

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.

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

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

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

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

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?