Earning a Living Quotes

He who does not work shall not eat

None but those who work are entitled to eat.

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.

I'm just making music, and I'm paying my bills.

I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.

Every day brings his bread with it.

I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that 'Thou shalt earn the bread by the sweat of thy face' was a benediction and not a penalty. Work is the zest of life; there is joy in its pursuit.

But we've got to work. We can't just live on reputations at all - by any means.

I work to stay alive.

The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour. He will strive to give the fruit of that supreme spiritual force which passes through him to the greatest number of people, because this conveying of the feelings that have been born in him to the greatest number of people is his joy and his reward. The artist of the future will not even understand how it is possible for an artist, whose joy consists in the widest dissemination of his works, to give these works only in exchange for a certain payment.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

A lot of the times, I end up having to do jobs to sort of pay the bills.

There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!

Music is my hustle.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily.

I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to know’; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.