Quotes About Earnings

I have a huge house surrounded by luxury but I've earned it.

A lot of our sources for income-inequality measures come from household surveys in which people report how much they earned in the last year, how much income they have, and so on. Those are not as well funded as they should be. We need to have those numbers.

I need to make money. If I don't, I cannot survive.

Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in it for the money, and the more concerned a doctor seems to be about making money the more suspicious people become about the care being provided.

There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.

Wolfe fluttered a hand. "It was distasteful to me, having to offer to take the money direct from you instead of through Mr. Helmar, but I felt you merited that consideration. I'm glad you contemn it as blackmail, since I like to pretend that I earn at least a fraction of what I collect; but the offer stands until ten in the morning, should you decide that you prefer it to this hide-and-seek.

I invite trouble only when I'm paid for it.

According to the Tax Foundation, Tax Freedom Day is April 19, meaning that every dollar you earn for the first four months of the year goes to taxes. Put another way, you work nearly three hours of each workday just to pay taxes.

you've got to earn more than the current combined rate of inflation and taxes in order for your money to grow in real terms.

Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A successful man earns the respect of the world never mind what is the state of his mind, or his manner of earning. So what is the good of such respect, and how happy will such a man be in himself? And if he is what passes for happy, such a state is lower than the self-content of the meanest animal.

The way to become rich is to make money, my dear Edna, not to save it

Modul cel mai sigur de a te îmbog??i este s? câÈ™tigi bani, scumpa mea Edna, nu s?-i economiseÈ™ti, veni replica lui.

Men often told a fairy tale in which there was a division of labor in families, the man going out to earn money, the woman looking after home and children. Reality was different.

Money tends to produce more money—when invested right.

Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."

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.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

The only people who stay the same are minuscule talents who earn their livings writing about other people who are busy living real lives

Nevertheless, some analysts on the sell-side have justified Tesla's valuation. We recently observed a televised analyst say "when Tesla is earning $25 a share. …" That estimate, presumably at some point in the future, is used as an anchor for a target price as the stock shifts into a "concept holding." The

We are not causing you to "lose your job" by "giving" you an OVI. We didn't give it to you, it was earned.

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

was talking to that girl we were dancing with.' Bletchley ran his handkerchief round beneath his collar. 'Apparently he hardly makes anything out of it at all.

A welfare system that was originally designed to compensate men for the loss of earnings is slowly and messily redesigned to compensate women for the loss of men