"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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"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 is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable."
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"When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince."
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"I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint?"
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"I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat."
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"No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge."
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"Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom."
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"I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance."
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"Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to know’; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living."
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"I turn down invitations to do things for money. I have almost no interest in making money. Actually, I've acquired a fair amount of money that I will never live to spend. So earning money, in a way, depresses me, because I feel it's just piling up."
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"At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class."
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"Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members."
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