Earning It Quotes

Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you—not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.

In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.

I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.

Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.

Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.

Do not expect anything; there is more to be gained by earning it.

Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.

Security comes from earning it-not seeking it.

With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

My advice to this investor is the same that I give to the young investors in my classes Devote the same earnest attention to investing that $50,000 as you devoted to earning it.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.

Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so; I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.

Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.

I am still learning, myself, but I guess I would say to be aware of what is around you. Do not expect anything; there is more to be gained by earning it. Work hard, play fair, be kind to all living creatures, and take a moment to just sit back and breathe.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

The corruption will come back to haunt the Trump administration. But mostly, it'll come back to haunt the American economy, as companies decide they can make money by rent-seeking, by getting money from government rather than earning it the old-fashioned way.

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

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Abbott Labs absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last five, 10 and 20 years at 13 or 14 times earnings, ... It's a great opportunity. Buy on this dip. We think a year from now the chart's going to be a mirror image on the up side.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.