Quotes About Earnings

In TIME June 7, 2010 On the sustainability of the publishing industry, in the Chicago Tribune: I think that book publishing is about to slide into the sea. We live in a literate time, and our children are writing up a storm, often combining letters and numbers.... The future of publishing: 18 million authors in America, each with an average of 14 readers, eight of whom are blood relatives. Average annual earnings: $175. - 5/26/10

Not long before her death, Mary Soames, Churchill's last surviving child, said about her father, 'The thing to remember is that he was a journalist.' So he was, and in his double career as politician and journalist, the writing enriched him, with earnings far larger than even the prime minister's salary, while also tempting him to play his habitual role as a lone wolf, free of party loyalty.

So if an employer says, "we just don't have the money to pay for your pension," that means that he has either embezzled, stolen, or misspent your earnings, which by contract he is responsible for paying you. Your employer is a thief.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

I love money because I've earned it. I won sixty G's with my first knockout - and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

I am very excited about the prospect of using cryptocurrency, not just as a money equivalent, but using it as a way to earn something as a result of doing some type of work.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

My parents instilled a really good work ethic from when I was little - if you want to have money to spend on holidays, you earn it. So I've always been someone who wanted to be able to survive by myself, but I think you have to let down the barriers a little bit - let other people in.

I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every round win.

It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

I never really had an itch for gambling. I work hard for my money, so I don't like going out and giving it away like that.

Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream.

I work hard making music - that's how I earn a living.

If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement.

When I turned 13 all of my life was designed around earning money to buy cinema tickets.

I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.

According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies

The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.

Any profession was worthy of respect to men who for centuries earned bread by the sweat of their brows.

That's the most basic truth the young could impose on the old--the immorality of spending now and charging it to Junior. Next time Obama tells Joe the Plumber he wants to spread the wealth around, it should be pointed out that you can't spend it until you've earned it. Redistribution from the future to the present is a crock, and if you happen to have been assigned to the future half of that equation, you should be merciless in your contempt for the present-tensers who've done that to you.

it's not what you earn that matters, it's what you keep.

Surprise, the returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by investors.

If you're a high-income earner from California or New York with a 50% federal and state ordinary income tax, you're left with closer to 3% on your investment after all these fees and taxes.