Earn Money or Make Money?

I think there's a huge difference between making money and earning money. There are many ways one can make money. Besides printing your own which is highly illegal you can make money by gambling, selling your belongings, perhaps you sell your home and make a few extra thousand dollars in the sale. Now as far as earning money as far as I know there is only one way to do this and that is to get out on your own find a job and work for each hour you are paid. I have always had to earn my money and I'm grateful for that byfaithonly. I'm interested to see your views. Thanks.

well i think everyone will have his/her own opinion on this. in my case, yes i do think there's a little difference too. earning money for me is when i have to do work. of course i have to work for the other too but in this one, i basically work for someone else and i earn that money. but for making money, i somehow get the feeling that i'm my own boss. that's what i feel anyway. yes, i am making money when i work for someone else, but somehow it feels different when you make for yourself and earn for yourself.

I had not really thought about the two terms. I personally think they are the same thing. Just a different way that different people refer to getting money. In both cases a person has to put effort on their part to get any money. So I don't see any difference in the two.

My view on this first I will make money by looking for a job or any kind of way to make money after having a job I will earn money. I don't think if It's right hehehe...

I thought they were the same, except saying that I have earned money sounds better than I made money..Then again, the other replies do have a point..

I think that making money is like here on mylot, selling items on ebay etc, winning money and things like that. Where as i think that earning money is where you actually do something for a living, or a part time job of some sort, and actually earn your money, for doing something! thats just how i see it =] Chris

Making money IMO is doing something simple without exerting any real effort to get cash but earning is actually working hard for it... I mean where you are actually exerting some effort into whatever you are doing. That to me is earning money.

If you were to say earning money and winning money, then I would say that there is a difference. Now as for making money, the only one I can think of is having a printing press down in the basement and you are printing out bills like there is no tomorrow or you have a job in the mint and it is your task to press out the dimes.:) But I gather it depends on how hard you work. If you really sweat and it does not come easy, you are earning, but if it takes no trouble at all, so you just think of it, or you invest money and your investment comes off, you are making money. So I make money from the money I have in my high interest savings account, but here I am earning money because it takes time to write without making any mistakes.

Ah Faith, I tried to look at your discussion in a philosophical way. Earning money and making money doesn't have much distinct dissimilarity for me. To earn money, you need to make money. It doesn't matter whether you are working on an employees' salary or heading your own business. To make money, you need to earn money. This can be in the means of saving your hard earned money and let it grow. Am I making sense, lol!

I presume this is a straight question? You make money while earning money. Earning, to me, implies a bit of having to put in hard work and hours. Making is more encompassing. It is just getting money to poop in your pockets.

I think the two terms are kind of interchangeable and yet not. Earning money implies "making" money from some service or job you've done and getting paid for that service...making money can imply getting money from something you did outside of exchanging your services or work efforts...Like for instance, I just got a form to fill out where I can get a rebate/refund type of check, but it wasn't for money I "earned", that is I didn't provide a service to gain the rebate/refund..another example of Making money would be if you sold some old unwanted items at ebay...if you get money for those old items (that maybe you would have thrown out anyway) you didn't "earn" it

Hi, Faith. (I like your ID/myLot name a lot, by the way!) Yes, there is a distinct difference in my mind when I hear the two separate phrases "making money" and "earning money." I don't know that this distinction is actually true, but I know what popped into my head when I read the title of this particular discussion. When I hear "earning money," it reminds me of going to work and receiving a paycheck. It's as simple as that. You do the work and you can expect to get paid for it. "Making money" is quite a bit different and more complex. Making money could be going to work and getting paid; however, it isn't limited to just that. Making money can also mean controlling a person's own wealth, as in, figuring out how to make the most of money and what the best way is to generate more income. Those who can earn money do well, but those who can actually make money have truly mastered a technique. The difference between earning money and making money separates the poor and the average from the rich and wealthy. People spend their entire lives searching for wealth, but only some find it. How is this? No one knows exactly, but it's like I said. That's the difference between the poor and the wealthy. When we can discover how to make money rather than just earning money, we'll be able to reap the benefits. I also had a question regarding a previous discussion you posted. Please accept my friends resquest so I can discuss my question with you in a private message. Great discussion here!

To me, earning money requires offering a service or good that others might not be able to reproduce.

I believe the the meaning of both words - making and earning that differentiates it for me. Making money is like getting extra cash from sidelines, earning money is like getting paid for working over long hrs in a day.

My theory is I make money on the internet but earn money working part time at my job away from the house. My job consists of dealing with the public and their needs therefore I feel like I earn my hourly pay.

that is a great question. i think with the way making money online works is you find something that pays, and then try and build a great downline for that program. so at fast you have to go out and earn your money by building your downline. once that is done, you are not in the next step of making money. because you have other people doing all the work for you.

In my mind, making money is money for today or short term, and earning money is consistently bringing money in on a daily or monthly basis. That's just my thoughts on the matter.

This discussion became addictive to me. I got lost and confused and goofy myself with each new comment. All I can really come up with to say is I have always believed "It takes money to make money" and "You have to spend money to get money". The first one I still am sure of, the second...Now I'm not so sure anymore. Oh Geez!

When I put my heart and soul into a job to make money then I earned it. When I sell some thing to make money then I still earned it because I put the efforts into selling it. Maybe I think I made money when I make more money then what was deserving of what I physically put into the earning of it. The more I type and the more I think about this I wonder is there a difference? When I started to type I was clear there was a difference but after my first sentence I wondered what the difference was? Maybe the question as more to do with morality? If I work with right motives and honest intentions than maybe I have earned the money and maybe if it is to get the money any way I possibly can then I have made money? What do you think of that? Is this a moral question? I don't know!

I don't really see a big difference myself, money is money a dollar earned is no less a dollar than one you make. That being said, I grew up as an artist in an auto town, so selling my art works was "making money" while certain persons looked down on me for not "earning it". Any argument I had that we both contributed to the local economy was meaningless, and i did supplement my income with the factory (well on the factory lot if you want to be specific) work i could get. I guess the only place there is a real difference is when the money is handed to you, ie i've just won the lottery, but even then maybe good karma just earned that for you ;P Its an interesting concept, but really a circular argument from most points of view.