Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.
I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word "bullshit" earnings.
Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes.
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.
The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits over that period.
One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices. I always look at trailing earnings when I judge stocks.
The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.
Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control.
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.
The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.
I'm going to bring in something called the London Living Rent. These are homes where rent is one third of average local earnings.
If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value.
When I was about 17, I had a row with my mother and left home for six months, renting a flat and working as a waitress for a while. I learnt you could double your earnings if you gave good, cheerful service. It taught me that in any job you can improve your lot.
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.
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.
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.