Earnings don't move the overall market; it's the Federal Reserve Board... focus on the central banks, and focus on the movement of liquidity... most people in the market are looking for earnings and conventional measures. It's liquidity that moves markets.
The more you learn the more you earn.
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.
Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.
If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.
Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.
Neither Capitalism nor Socialism can pretend to be an ideology. They are merely methods for dividing ownership and income.
There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
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.
Of all the instrumentalities which have been conceived by the mind of man for transferring the bread which one man earns to another man who does not earn it, I believe the gold standard is the greatest.
A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
When people work, they send us a check. When they don't, we send them a check.
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
I hit a home run in my first game, and they told me to go into the stands and pass my cap around. I made six dollars in nickels, dimes, and quarters.
I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.
You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.
When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.
Work—honest work—is not degrading. The man who by honest toil earns an honest living is a peer of the realm.
Either Men or Women that have a Trade, or are Labourers, can, if industrious, get near three times the Wages they commonly earn in EngIand.
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
The primary purpose of organized society is to enable everybody to get a living.
You can have a big hit and not get rich.
I just need to count the rounds and count me money afterwards.
What is a communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.
