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The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

— Mary Leakey

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.

— Tilman J. Fertitta

I never made any money, but I had the best jobs in the world.

— Letitia Baldrige

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

— John Grisham

Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.

— Art Rooney

My first job ever was selling balloons with my brother at parades when I was about six years old. My father wanted us to learn about money, how to make it, save it, spend it, etc.

— Donna Lynne Champlin

✗Opposing Perspectives

My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

— Sunil Mittal

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

— Marguerite Young

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

— Walter Lord

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

— Christie Hefner

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

— Carroll Shelby