Quotes About Income

Too many Negroes go into medicine and dentistry merely for selfish purposes, hoping thereby to increase their income and spend it in joyous living. They have the ambition to own fine automobiles, to dress handsomely, and to figure conspicuously in society. The practice of these professions among poor Negroes yields these results.

Am I to admire a man who injures me in an awkward and mistaken attempt to protect me, and to despise a man who to earn a good income performs for me some great and lasting service?

Democracy was a terrifying concept for the old world of Europe, and even the new world of North America, where income inequality was rife. The finest minds of the nineteenth century warned against giving the vote to the workingman, for fear of mob rule or the tyranny of the majority.

A PART OF ALL YOU EARN IS YOURS TO KEEP.

In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Most good lawyers live well, work hard, and die poor.

Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.

A homer a day will boost my pay.

It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects.

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

More and more these days I find myself pondering on how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament, not of income.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through, if you are a crook or a martyr.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

The iron law of wages.

All wealth is the product of labor

He'd have made billions on this, Eve added. Grossed. I'll say it's gross. No, no. It was a relief to laugh. Gross income. It would cost-has to cost enormously to run the labs, develop the technology, the school, the network. The net income would be substantial, I'd think, but Eve, the cost, the risk? I think you're looking at a labor of love.

Bem, mais um dia e mais um dólar, boa noite.