Quotes About Earnings

I do a job. I get paid. I go home.

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.

You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

Try to earn your $$$$$$ before you spend them.

I can't afford to pay them any other way.

Doesn't she realize that the life she is living is an accident of fortune? Doesn't she know that she is an exception in this world, where it is normal to be unhappy, to be hungry, to work non-stop and earn next to nothing, and to suffer the whims of everything from tyrants to hurricanes and earthquakes?

His farewell feast shows that he possessed means, but we must not take for granted that they were dishonestly earned. This only we may safely say, that if the publican disciple had been covetous, the spirit of greed was now exorcised; if he had ever been guilty of oppressing the poor, he now abhorred such work.

I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.

My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it's only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

We were spoiled in many ways, but we were always taught to understand the value of the dollar. If there was something we wanted, we had to earn it. Even in college, we were very fiscally responsible. I had 300 bucks a month; anything I wanted beyond that, I had to work for.

I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.

I don't know of any American playwrights who earn the bulk of their living writing plays. Many of the older ones teach, while a growing number of younger ones write for series television.

I pay myself three, three and half million - which is plenty of money, c'mon.

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

Mark Emmert, the head of the NCAA, makes millions. Coaches today are making millions. Who's not making anything? I don't want to hear about they get scholarships. Yeah, they get scholarships all right, they earn those scholarships.

I learned that you appreciate what you earn much more than what is given you. I also learned that decisions have consequences.