Quotes About Earnings

Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.

I made $400.00 a week for my tenure at GLOW. I was there for about nine months.

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

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.

You earn your future, Malta Vestrit." The bead-maker cocked her head at her. "What does tomorrow owe you?" "Tomorrow owes me?" Malta repeated in confusion. "Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that." Amber looked out to sea again. "And no less. Sometimes folk wish tomorrow did not pay them off so completely.

You earn your future, Malta Vestrit.' The bead-maker cocked her head at her. 'What does tomorrow owe you?' 'Tomorrow owes me?' Malta repeated in confusion. 'Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that.' Amber looked out to sea again. 'And no less. Sometimes folk wish tomorrow did not pay them off so completely.

Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind and blacken to the heart: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey of peace in old poems.

My argument will have to be that the plaintiff, who's dead, wasn't going to earn that much, because, after all, he wasn't good enough to earn a promotion. And as far as pain and suffering, don't pay him for that because he died within a year, so he didn't suffer that long.

All copyrights are held by the Stationers' Company, and they pay a pittance. They control all and there is nowhere else to go. A man ekes out an existence only if he can do other things as well. A dramatist does scarcely better, for he must sell his copyright to the theatrical companies, and if he gets as much as six pounds he is fortunate. No, my friend, it is no way to earn a living.

I'm not ambitious for a splendid fortune, but I know, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be had in a plain little house, where the daily bead is earned, and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures. I am content to see Meg begin humbly, for if I am not mistaken, she will be rich in the possession of a good man's heart, and that is better than a fortune.

but I know, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be had in a plain little house, where the daily bread is earned, and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures.

From Vanderbilt, Morgan had learned the trick of basing value not on current assets but on projected earnings.

One of the greatest of liberals, Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic Party, once remarked: "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned—this is the sum of good government.

When you look at other sports, like golf, the players earn a lot more money without running around.

if you just stick to buying good companies (ones that have a high return on capital) and to buying those companies only at bargain prices (at prices that give you a high earnings yield), you can end up systematically buying many of the good companies that crazy Mr. Market has decided to literally give away.

I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.

I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.

What is a communist? One who hath yearningsFor equal division of unequal earnings.

We make money the old-fashioned way. We earn it.

God will not take you to task for vain words in your oaths, but He will take you to task for what your hearts have earned.

The laborer is worthy of his hire.

The view is better when it is earned.

Oh, and since the state received a thousand dollars in federal funds for every child taken into custody, it was a nice little earner