Quotes About Income

No hay feminismo sin independencia económica. Eso lo vi claramente en mi infancia con la situación de mi madre. Las mujeres necesitamos disponer de ingresos propios y manejarlos, para eso se requiere educación, capacitación y un ambiente laboral y familiar adecuado. No siempre es el caso.

Me hice cargo de los gastos, tal como había hecho durante mi matrimonio, sin que me pesara, porque ganaba suficiente, pero con Fabian había aprendido una lección que habría de recordar siempre: no basta con ganar dinero, hay que saber manejarlo. Eso, que ahora me parece indiscutible, en mi juventud era una novedad.

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

The real minimum wage is zero.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

I think, at the end of the day, you have to reduce friction to businesses, ideally to zero, so that more and more entrepreneurs can create more and more jobs with higher and higher disposable income.

The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

There are many people who think we should have zero tax on capital gains, interest and dividends for everybody, as - the very, very wealthy. But recognize that means that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett would pay no income tax at all. And some people say, 'Well, that's a good thing for growth of the economy.'

I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

Zoning laws making housing more expensive? That's less of a problem with a universal basic income and more of a reason to put money directly into people's hands.

An agent is a guy who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what he makes.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.

It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

To convert an hourly wage to an approximate yearly salary, double the wage and change the decimal to a comma.

No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

As a party, Democrats must focus on the pocketbook issues that our constituents care about every day when they wake up to go to work, drop off their kids at school, and tuck them into bed at night.

Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up.

My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.

If someone has money, they can put their child in a private school, paying tens of thousands of dollars for tuition. But their child's needs are met. What is lacking is options for that single mom with three kids, or just that intact family but lower income.

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.