Quotes about Earning

KRS-One

It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.

Thomas Jefferson

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Vladimir Lenin

He who does not work shall not eat

Charlie Munger

The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

Jim Rohn

We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time,... but we get paid for the value, not the time.

Melinda Gates

Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family's well-being - as much as 10 times more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

Ursula K. Le Guin

For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead Kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.

William Feather

Few of us get anything without working for it.

Charlie Munger

I got at a very early age, the idea that the safest way to try and get what you want, is to try and deserve what you want.
It’s such a simple idea, it’s the golden rule so to speak. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.

Warren Buffett

Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.

Gene Sarazen

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

George Burns

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

Zig Ziglar

If you want to earn more, learn more.

Jim Rohn

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Joe Knollenberg

You've got to ask for more money.

The Director had asked for a small budget at the instructions of President George W. Bush and his budget advisors. The mores of Washington is that a director of a public program must not ask for more money than the President wants that agency to have—even if the person is under oath and testifying. They say that they could not use the money wisely or some such euphemism.

Dallas Willard

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

Henry George

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

Eric Liu

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?