Quotes About Income

You don't lock into a ten-year family budget. You take it a year at a time - maybe even six months at a time. And then if the income really comes in the way you hope it does, then you can make some of those expenditures that you've been waiting to make. We think that same principle should apply to the national family we call America.

Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.

The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.

I needed to pay for my horses in Warwickshire, and I couldn't do that off a waitress' wage.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

I walked away from a lot, I could have stayed in the industry in some capacity and had a fairly cushy income, and I chose to follow God. If it happened all over again, I would do that same thing.

You can have a big hit and not get rich.

The biggest thing I learned is directors don't make a lot of money on a movie.

I realized I was never going to be Lance Armstrong. And in biking, if you want to make money, you have to be the best.

On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

A lot of the times, I end up having to do jobs to sort of pay the bills.

You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one.

I think you have lots of actors who would much rather do a wonderful part at the Royal Shakespeare Company, but then you have to take a two-line part in a TV thing to pay the bills.

You can have a passion for something, but you still have to pay the bills.

I've always had to work to pay my bills.

I'd be happy just to do theatre work but it can't pay the bills.

At the end of the day, I still have bills to pay and taxes to pay.

Shortly after I started in bluegrass, Ricky Skaggs and I got together and the bluegrass career just snowballed. Being 15 or 16 and making good money playing music was pretty attractive.

We have to make a living and you can't do that playing bluegrass.

I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.

I've trained side-by-side with all these boxers and they make more money than me.