Earn Quotes - page 2

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want. (Anita Roddick)
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. View quote
Joyce Cary
I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it. View quote
Kevin Eubanks
The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living. View quote
Owen D. Young
Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual. View quote
Sue Kelly
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet. View quote
Theodore White
The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods. View quote
Zalmay Khalilzad
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive. View quote
Germaine Greer
Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise. View quote
Samuel Smiles
Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity. (George Soros)
I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money. View quote
Rick Santorum
Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
What's the use of money if you have to earn it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Most people in the world are poor. If we knew the economy of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matter. Most of the world's poor people earn their living in agriculture. If we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economic of being poor. View quote
Theodore Schultz
Most men – not just the men in Brentwood – are scared of powerful women with brains. There's something in a man that makes him want to have power over a woman – whether it's in the bedroom or because they earn more money. It boosts their egos. View quote
Jodie Marsh
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. View quote
Jeff Bezos
The greatest problem before engineers and managers today is the economical utilization of labor. The limiting of output by the workman, and the limiting by the employer of the amount a workman is allowed to earn, are both factors which militate against that harmonious co-operation of employer and employee which is essential to their highest common good. View quote
Henry Gantt
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. (Jules Renard)
One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good. View quote
Bram Cohen
The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university. View quote
Colin Wilson
Nonsense, it was all nonsense this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money. View quote
Doris Lessing
Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money. View quote
Edgar Degas