Quotes About Income

We are in an era of chronic insecurity and growing inequalities. In that context, we need to have new mechanisms for income distribution which give people a sense of security.

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

As an actor, I get my insurance from the Screen Actor's Guild by union, and you have to make so much every year to get that type 1 insurance.

There is absolutely nothing more likely to dampen the prospects of becoming rich than a nice, fat, regular salary check.

Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant? These are the kind of questions we are asking ourselves. So the new scenario will allow them to do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it.

man becomes rich in proportion to the remunerative nature of his labor;

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.

Do you earn income as a model? Maybe I do.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not — the government won't let me try it.

Apple necessarily must pay the workers producing the iPods less money than they gain from the labor of that particular worker. In this, we see the basic profit motive of capital.

As a sculptor, Faffan had no choice but to depend almost entirely on prizes, grants and commissions, which made for a highly unreliable income.

I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.

Jeff always said that when you focus on the business inputs, then the outputs such as revenue and income will take care of themselves.

the nation's young men have been proved by surveys to be completely unmarriageable, and as a result there's a whole generation of single girls like me with their own incomes and homes who have lots of fun and don't need to wash anyone else's socks.

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

Pressure is the single mom who is trying to scuffle and pay her rent. We get paid a lot of money to play a game. Don't get me wrong: there are challenges. But to call it pressure is almost an insult to regular people.

When I wrote 'The Assistants,' I knew very much that I wanted to write about income inequality and student loan debt and the gender wage gap, but I wanted to put it in a really slick, fun package. That book ended up being described as a socially conscious novel in chick-lit clothing.

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

Wrestling has gotten crazy lately in that guys can really make comfortable, good livings outside of WWE.

I had the greatest deal in the history of professional wrestling. I could work for WWE, anybody else that I wanted to, and collect income from every one of those companies, including merchandise. It was a really good deal.

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.