Quotes About Livelihood

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than # agriculture

It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

I was a pizza delivery man. I worked at a gas station. I worked a lot of jobs, man. A lot of jobs.

Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

We have to get money. We have no choice. It cost money to eat.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.

And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living doing that?' He said 'Yes, this my livelihood.'

In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

My Vegas act is how I make my money.