Earning Quotes - Page 19

• From a rational standpoint, it might be expected that man should be far more willing to express financial confidence in his skills rather than risking his earnings on the mindless meanderings of chance. Experience, however, has strongly indicated the reverse proposition to hold true.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Men, Skills, Might

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It's a morning yearning.

  Ben Harper

  Running, Morning, World

  Song: Morning Yearning, Album: Both Sides of the Gun, 2006

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

  Francis Parkman

  Versailles, France, Labor

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe”, p.853, Library of America

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• 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.

  A. A. Milne

  Quiet, Sometimes, Wonder

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• After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Years, Differences

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• 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.

  Warren Farrell

  Males, Definitions, Life Is

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• [When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better - for the men.

  Fanny Kemble

  Husband, Men, Wish

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• Now you say, alas! Christianity is hard; I grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn the difficulty when I respect the advantage. The greatest labors that have answerable requitals are less than the least that have no regard. Believe me, when I look to the reward, I would not have the work easier. It is a good Master whom we serve, who not only pays, but gives; not after the proportion of our earnings, but of His own mercy.

  Joseph Hall

  Believe, Giving, Looks

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• The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Poetry, Poet, Bookkeepers

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.61, U of Minnesota Press

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• the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!

  Marie Corelli

  Clever, Men, Secret

  Marie Corelli (2015). “Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact”, p.366, The Floating Press

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• Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Mother, Teacher, Husband

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.

  Rolf Potts

  Order, Choices, Liberty

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

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Class, World, Victim

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1973). “The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926).”

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• One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

  Jaron Lanier

  Tests, Insult, Economy

  Jaron Lanier (2013). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Four, Letters, Needs

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• The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most determined, hardest working, capable and creative will make their way to earning a good living by their art.

  Mike Svob

  Art, Reality, Creative

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• 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.

  John Maus

  Decision, Force, Music Is

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

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• The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to go report quarterly earnings and all that stuff. The competition is so huge that it's very hard to get people to show up to see any movie in the theater, much less an original one that isn't a version of something else they saw.

  Tom Hanks

  Running, People, Competition

  "Tom Hanks and Halle Berry Talk CLOUD ATLAS, Playing Multiple Roles, Moving Between Directors and Time Periods, Fear of Failure and the Collaborative Process". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 23, 2012.

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• The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mother, Father, Women

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• Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on earning you a living without you doing any more work on it. It's absolutely ideal for an idler.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Book, Writing, Idlers

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Children, Lying, Men

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• History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

  William Graham Sumner

  Winning, Order, Class

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.27, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Men, Law, Share

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Ends, Found

  Thomas Jefferson, Martin Alfred Larson (1981). “Jefferson, magnificent populist”, Devin-Adair Pub

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• DaimlerChrysler made significant progress in the year 2005, but our earnings are still not where we want them to be. We intend to grow profitably and to create added value over the long term - for the benefit of our customers, employees and shareholders.

  Dieter Zetsche

  Years, Long, Progress

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