Woodrow Wilson
Politician
"To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest."
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Earning
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Marlene Dietrich
Actress, Singer
"There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"If you don’t feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset’s future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability to evaluate every investment possibility. But omniscience isn’t necessary; you only need to understand the actions you undertake."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood."
Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"The goal of life is not the earning of money, but the service of God.p.114"
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"Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share."
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"I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it."
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"Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest."
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"Earning money has a way of increasing financial intelligence quickly."
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"Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time."
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"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."
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"No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer."
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"It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings."
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"Your greatest resource is your time."
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"China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves."
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"The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values."
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"Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money."
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"Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law."
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"Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well."
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"The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them."
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"Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them."
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"You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power"
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"Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family's well-being - as much as 10 times more."
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"Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value."
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"Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money."
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