Quotes About Income

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

Most families rely on two incomes to make ends meet, and when a woman earns less, we put working families at a huge disadvantage.

The impact of low interest rates is broad and deep. Many Americans rely on interest income from their savings to help cover their cost of living.

There is, happily, a non-redistributive approach to address income inequality - one that doesn't rely upon government. It's to grow the pie. That is, create more decent jobs that pay more.

You have to figure out some way of making money without relying on video ads or people paying to download.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

I'm an actor, after all, and I need to be able to pay my rent.

In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.

I never wanted to be one of those desperate actors, just waiting for their next gig, who might have to take something that they didn't want to do to pay the rent.

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

There were days when I was on the last $10 in my account, and I was freaking out about paying rent or buying groceries. Then you book a commercial, and you're good for another three months.

You have to do whatever jobs you can to pay the rent.

When the gig ain't there, you still got to pay the rent. I learned that a long time ago.

Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of their income to housing. When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.

Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent of your income to rent - and eviction becomes something of an inevitability to you, it denies you certain freedoms.

If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict a tenant who falls behind under those circumstances, eviction becomes an inevitability.

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

As long as I can pay rent, that's all I care about.

All New Yorkers have the right to decent housing, regardless of income and rent.

I have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.

I'm just trying to make rent and do my work.

Most of Mark Zuckerberg's income is just rent collected off the millions of picture and video posts that we give away daily for free. And sure, we have fun doing it. But we also have no alternative - after all, everybody is on Facebook these days.

What people forget is that no one pays you to go and be a champion for democracy. A girl's got to make rent. I didn't have a job for two years.