Quotes About Income

The less money you owe, the less income you'll need and the less you'll have to save for tomorrow.

At a minimum I want you to figure out a way to set aside 15% of your pre-tax salary each and every year, starting as early as possible. If you wait until your 40s and 50s to get serious about saving, you will need to set aside 25% or more of your gross salary.

Your mortgage, property tax, and insurance (called PITI) should not exceed 25% of your gross (pre-tax) monthly income.

Your PITI and all other debts should not exceed 36% of your gross monthly income.

I can't micromanage what anybody pays or doesn't pay. But the concept that half of the public isn't involved with the income-tax system is somewhat odd and I'm not saying how much people should do, but we should all be part of the system.

I've got a balance sheet. Every year I have to figure out how much I generate and what I spend, and keep those two somewhat in relationship.

I'm a commercial-minded songwriter. I'm here to make a living and be on the radio.

I sing and play guitar, but songwriting is how I pay my rent. And so I didn't really need a lot of publicity to get people to record the songs.

The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries any longer.

If you are a professional player and you are playing in the top professional league, you are sorted financially, which is good.

I want to be compensated. If I'm working at the post office, and I'm sorting the same mail as the person to the right, and they're making $25 an hour and I'm making $21, I need to know what is this person doing so much better that he's getting $4 more than me. That's just knowing the market and being a smart businessman.

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.

I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.

There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.

People don't think music to be a reliable source of income or career, which I will agree, in a way, because Bollywood is a very risky place to be in.

At the end of the day, a playback singer has to depend on live shows as their source of income.

I make my money from a lot of different sources, so I'm not depending on any one thing to really pull through.

Since it's no longer my singular source of income, I've withdrawn from fashion spaces a bit. However, I still have a deep love for fashion and want to continue to work with designers and houses that inspire me - like Rick Owens, whose show I would no doubt walk in again if the opportunity arose.

The actual capital value of your brains may be determined by the amount of income you can produce (by marketing your services). A fair estimate of the capital value of your services maybe made by multiplying your annual income by sixteen and two-thirds, as it is reasonable to estimate that your annual income represents six percent of your capital value. Money rents for 6% per annum.

If you have the IMAGINATION, and seek a more profitable outlet for your personal services, this suggestion may be the stimulus for which you have been searching. The IDEA is capable of yielding an income far greater than that of the average doctor, lawyer, or engineer whose education required several years in college.

Hard work is the only thing that will turn sales training and ability into money. No

The actual capital value of your brains may be determined by the amount of income you can produce (by marketing your services).

Artisans, say, taxi drivers, prostitutes (a very, very old profession), carpenters, plumbers, tailors, and dentists, have some volatility in their income but they are rather robust to a minor professional Black Swan, one that would bring their income to a complete halt. Their risks are visible. Not so with employees, who have no volatility, but can be surprised to see their income going to zero after a phone call from the personnel department. Employees' risks are hidden.