Income Quotes

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.

People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.

Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

Get rid of IRS; get rid of income tax; get rid of spending.

Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level.

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else

I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.

I don't consider myself a fashion person, I consider myself a shopping person. As a person who has girlie interests and a little bit of disposable income.

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.

To double your income, triple your investment in self-development.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the outgo.

Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary.

Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.

America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.

In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income.

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.