| Merit a reward |
| Best way to get respect |
| John Houseman ad phrase |
| Get something by working |
| Achieve something by merit |
| Slogan in many exercise ads |
| Part of Smith Barney's old slogan |
| You won't just get this for nothing |
| Deserve something through hard work |
| The only way to get respect, so they say |
| How to make money "the old-fashioned way |
| The old-fashioned way" to make money, in an old ad |
| How to "make money the old-fashioned way," in a Smith Barney ad |
| What you've got to do "if you want my love," in a Temptations song |