Income Quotes

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income

If you don't work, you shouldn't have an income. If you don't work, you shouldn't get paid.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

You have phantom income each year. No money is being put in your pocket, but you have to take some money out of your pocket to pay Uncle Sam because the tax is paid based on accretion.

Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.

We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.

The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.

In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions.

When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

Realize that you earn income by providing value - not time - so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it.

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do and actually failed.

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal.

Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.

Take it from me: no matter how few or how many children you have, or how little or how much money you make, your expenses are going to exceed your income by approximately a hundred dollars a month.

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence of poverty.

The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and so there is a grotesque maldistribution of income and wealth.

So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.

Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.

If you no longer have any income, you will not be neglected-you will not starve to death. . . . We panic at first, but God does not always allow the evil that is feared to happen.

In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.

Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

My main income came from failed movie and TV options.

I think the biggest thing we need is to unclog the credit markets, and we may need another stimulus - if we do, it's - it should go to the lower and middle-income people.

My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time.

You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling.

I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels.

If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world's income with 4 percent of the world's people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth.

Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay. Education provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income and an enhanced quality of life.

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent.

Ignorance leads to low income.

When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.

He who makes $25, 000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100, 000 annually through a salary.

The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them

We cannot let the future of our children be decided by their zip codes and family incomes.

Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on envying the advantages and achievements of others.

To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.

Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.

Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor.

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.

In the future, each of us must have the courage to follow our gift or to be engaged in a favorite occupation, even if it does not bring you any income at the moment

Love I must forego. I am not a man with an income.

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.

It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make).