I pay our nanny more than I'm earning.

“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was focused on The Hunger Games movie with my director, with the studio, and with the cast and crew. We all just focused…

— Nina Jacobson

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that…

— Susan J. Ellis

If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of…

— Robert Kiyosaki

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…

— Tom Hodgkinson

These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider…

— Marcy Kaptur

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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,…

— Warren Farrell

Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive goods, services,…

— Robert Higgs

Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than…

— David Rolf

Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that…

— Warren Buffett

“Invest in self-improvement, be it for learning, be it for earning.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

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. A. Milne

The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits…

— Peter Cundill