Income Quotes

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.

The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.

While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.

If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.

Income from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.

It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos - no matter what the parent's income or education level.

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

People in the White House work hard, whatever administration. They get rewarded in psychic income, a sense that they are involved in something bigger than themselves, that it's important.

There are thousands and thousands of free programs available for people of any income level.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

Now DVD can represent more income than the box office - and typically does.

In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift - a striking shift - from production to financialization.

Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.

If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

Job security is a myth...it is also risky for self-employed people in my opinion. If they get sick, injured, or die, their income is directly impacted.

Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.

I think for women especially, you need to have a plan. I need to have some other ways to generate income, so I don't have to stretch my face or lift the top of my head with surgery or something.

It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.

You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.

In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs and income, not more unemployment and suffering.

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.

If you're a person that has low income, you probably should have more assistance than a person with high income.

Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between where low-income and high-income families live.

I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.

The decision is I'm going to do everything I can to fight for the working class of this country, the low-income people against income and wealth inequality, do everything we can about climate change.

I think the wealthiest people in America are doing phenomenally well, 52 percent of all new income generated today goes to the top 1 percent.