Earning Quotes

In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.

Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.

The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.

Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.

Life is about more than earning a living, and if you're not in the habit of thinking about it, you can end up middle-aged or even older and shocked to realize that your life seems empty.

Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by which to understand the worth of stocks....investors have no model or at best a very incomplete model of behavior of prices, dividend, or earnings, of speculative assets.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.

If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a model. I am an extremely private person and I do not have the temperament for fame. I think I was rather ashamed of this trivial way of earning a living.

Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.

If you don’t feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset’s future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability to evaluate every investment possibility. But omniscience isn’t necessary; you only need to understand the actions you undertake.

There are now businesses and entire industries that exist solely as a result of federal patronage. Profiting from government instead of earning profits in the economy, such businesses can continue to succeed even if they are squandering resources and making products that people wouldn't ordinarily buy.

I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.

It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

A man is a failure who goes through life earning nothing but money.

Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I just loved it, and I realized that I was actually kinda good at it, and then that was it.

My goal is to buy a company at a low multiple to normal earnings power several years out and that the company earns good returns on capital at that level of normal earnings. A holding period of more than one year also works quite well as the factors are persistent in years 2 and 3.

I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.

The goal of life is not the earning of money, but the service of God.p.114

I was Chairman for two days. I had an airplane with my engines, hit a building I insured, was covered by a network I owned and I still have to increase earnings by 11 percent.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly.

I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it.

One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.

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

Earning money has a way of increasing financial intelligence quickly.

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it will force you into making decisions in the interest of earning your keep, as opposed to the interest of the thing itself.

There is no limit on earnings.

Its not about earning a paycheck, its about doing something good that you believe in.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high

Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically working people who have finally reached their peak earning years after many years of far more modest incomes-and now see much of what they have worked for siphoned off by politicians, to the accompaniment of lofty rhetoric.

The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.