Income Quotes

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

At 50$ per barrel of oil we shall lose about three trillion rubles of budget income

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change.

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.

I think the media and the candidates have got to talk about why the middle class is in decline and why we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality.

Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.

I will do my best to transform our trade policy and take on these corporations who want to invest in low-income countries around the world rather than in the United States of America.

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

The summit, which is set up to educate people about managing their money and protecting their income, leads to empowerment of self, for which this summit needs to be applauded.

In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.

Every group spends more when its income grows.

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.

The plant goes down. The industry is weaker. The price of the commodity has lagged. Any of those things can push people into unemployment or lower income categories, and that hurts.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.

So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can't put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation.

SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our low-income youth.

If we hold onto our American ideals, we've got to make sure that all opportunities are available - including access to the internet - no matter what income level you're at or where you live.

Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Every effort must be made to increase forfeiture income.

Your jobs come back under a Trump administration. Your income goes up under a Trump administration.

I know hedge-fund guys that are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year and pay no tax. And I want to lower [tax] for the middle income. The middle class in this country has been decimated.

I've proposed reforms on taxes, regulations, and trade that will all have the effect of keeping jobs and wealth in America for our workers - and dramatically boosting incomes.

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.

Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.

Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.

Amazons Jeff Bezos, Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income.

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

You know what I figured out?" I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or I'm about to learn what a crappy shrink I am." (276)

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

It seems to me that it's better to allow people to have more spendable income.That helps 'LO stimulate the economy and create more jobs.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

I can't control my own income, I can't control my own destiny, I can't even control my own farm if I'm a farmer. This is not going to last.

Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and services, of more and more wealth and income to be shared.