Earning Quotes

• The amount of money you have has got nothing to do with what you earn.. people earning a million dollars a year can have no money and.. People earning $35,000 a year can be quite well off. It's not what you earn, it's what you spend.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Success, Money, Years

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• Earning money has a way of increasing financial intelligence quickly.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Way, Financial Intelligence, Financial

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

  Lillian Gish

  Happy Life, Life Is, Life Happiness

  Lillian Gish (1969). “The Movies, Mr. Grifith, and Me”

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• Never spend your money before you have earned it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Debt Free, Owing A Debt

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

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Time, Assets

  Twitter post from Oct 24, 2015

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• Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Work, Average, Excellence

  Brian Tracy (2013). “Earn What You're Really Worth: Maximize Your Income at Any Time in Any Market”, p.35, Vanguard Press

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• I pay our nanny more than Im earning.

  Rupert Penry-Jones

  Nannies, Pay

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• It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Business, Philosophical

  "Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1782.

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• There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.75, Booklassic

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• Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Perseverance, Retirement

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

  Felix Dennis

  Wealth, Form, Preservation

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

  Marlene Dietrich

  Differences, Wealth, Rich

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

  Richard Miller

  Wrestling, Writing, Way

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• As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.

  E. M. Forster

  Jobs, Long, Would Be

  "Aspects of the Novel". Book by E. M. Forster, 1927.

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• As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

  Dennis Prager

  Earning It, People, Ungrateful

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• As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has.

  Jay Roach

  Long, Parent, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Tertullian

  Usual, Way, Harsh

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• While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Helping Others, Making A Difference, Charity

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• Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

  Angela Merkel

  Money, Uprising, Priorities

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

  Sam Shepard

  Horse, Writing, Buying

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• We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Games, Choices

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 25, 2017

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• If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

  John Updike

  Children, Men, Ice Cream

  John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.244, Random House

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• If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Running

  Charles Barkley, Roy S. Johnson (1993). “Outrageous!”

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• For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

  Katharine Anthony

  Mother, Long, Relaxation

  KATHARINE ANTHONY “MOTHERS WHO MUST LEARN”

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• Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

  Polly Toynbee

  Happiness, Years, Giving

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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