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Quotes About Earnings

The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.
~ Peter Mayle
The PhD student is someone who forgoes current income in order to forgo future income.
~ Peter Greenberg
It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
~ Benjamin Graham
Takeovers wouldn't cause the stock market to rise unless there is an upward reassessment of earnings (potential). People are more optimistic and confident about the future.
~ Lawrence Summers
If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
~ Ogden Nash
Do you want to make money from Facebook? It's easy. Just go to your Account Setting, Deactivate your account, and Go To Work!
~ Unknown
My friend Eduardo made $300,000 betting oil futures one summer, and Eduardo won't come close to getting in. The ability to make money doesn't impress anybody around here.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
I can still taste that first beer I bought with my own paycheck.
~ Marlon Brando
Broadly speaking, there are only two ways human beings can make an income: ...by contributing to society or they can extract an income from society
~ Unknown
don't sweeten the pill of bad pay for new
~ Mary Beard
I intend to achieve financial freedom and win over debt for a lifetime by consistently giving, saving, and never spending more money than I earn. I will know I've reached my goal when I have no unsecured debt; I have a $10,000 Contingency Fund; my Freedom Account is funded one year in advance; and I am consistently giving away 10 percent, saving 10 percent, and living on 80 percent of my income.
~ Unknown
truck driver, but mostly earning
~ Mary Kay Andrews
The ability of mental concentration, as well as the absolutely essential feeling of obligation  to one's job, are here most often combined with a strict economy which calculates the possibility of high earnings, and a cool self-control and frugality which enormously increase performance.
~ Max Weber
Most bank loans are not to create new means of production but are made against real estate, financial securities or other assets already in place. The main source of gain for borrowers since the 1980s has not derived from earnings but seeing the real estate, stocks or bonds they have bought on credit rise as a result of asset-price inflation – that is, to get rich from the debt-leveraged Bubble Economy.
~ Michael Hudson
The only entitlement guaranteed should be the fruits of one's own labor.
~ Michael Palmer
If the pastor doesn't give you money for the household, earn something and put aside savings for emergencies. Spend what you need but just throw even a few coins into a tin and forget that you have it. A woman should always have something put by.
~ Min Jin Lee
Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
~ Morgan Freeman
Now I'm not sayin' just to be funny, but I'm fightin' Ernie because he needs the money.
~ Muhammad Ali
Human stupidity is an endless stream of profit. Billions are earned from man's stupidity
~ Unknown
Several studies have found that child poverty costs the United States about $ 1 trillion each year in increased health, crime, prison and welfare spending as well as in reduced earnings. That's about $ 8,000 per household annually. Most researchers find that each dollar invested in reducing child disadvantage would save the country at least $ 7.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Don't let someone spend money who never earned it.
~ Unknown
Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.
~ Noel Coward
After all, the band was being paid a relative pittance for their efforts: $750 per show, split four ways. Oh, and twenty-five dollars per diem to cover meals and other sundries. Think about that: each night when Van Halen went onstage, each band member earned approximately $187 to perform. Given
~ Unknown
...The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.
~ Ogden Nash