Quotes About Income

Rothschild . . . destroyed the predominance of land, by raising the system of state bonds to supreme power, thereby mobilising property and income and at the same time endowing money with the previous privileges of the land. He thereby created a new aristocracy, it is true, but this, resting as it does on the most unreliable of elements, on money, can never play as enduringly regressive a role as the former aristocracy, which was rooted in the land, in the earth itself.

it's not owning property that gives you security; it just gives your creditors security. Real security comes from having a steady income

Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the where-withal: call it what you like, money matters.

A society that expects most individuals to take responsibility for the management of their own expenditure and income after tax, that expects most adults to own their own homes and that leaves it to the individual to determine how much to save for retirement and whether or not to take out health insurance, is surely storing up trouble for the future by leaving its citizens so ill-equipped to make wise financial decisions.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

Some of the movies I did - well, you have to feed your family.

Too many of our teachers are working multiple jobs - and it's still not enough.

I think, like, in real life, I'm actually quiet, and I mumble a lot. But that's not very lucrative.

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.

A long time ago, Prince said that no musician is ever gonna make money off the Internet, and he was right.

We all know the record biz don't pay. All musicians have day jobs - no matter how big they are.

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

I pay our nanny more than I'm earning.

You know, there is an image of me out there for which advocacy of a universal basic income is inconsistent. It doesn't fit the narrative because this is supposed to be the hardhearted, racist, sexist, homophobe, Charles Murray. And he wants to increase spending on the poor? That doesn't fit.

The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

We know that if you educate a girl, as the saying goes, you educate a nation. That girl will get married later, she will have fewer children, she's more likely to earn an income, and that income is more likely to be plowed back into the family so that the family benefits.

There is absolutely no shame in living within your income, however small it may be, but there is shame if creditors are always coming to your door.

Every time a student's family income increases by $5,000, the student's SAT score (either math or verbal) rises; for each $5,000 decrease, the score drops. This holds true every year and for every ethnic group.

Although he is a soft touch for any cause that helps lift up needy people or perpetuate democracy, he believes that the "tithe" he gives—nearly half of his earnings—is the least anyone should give who is "blessed to live in a great democracy.

You can make a lot of money from a book, but that is done by using a book as a marketing tool.

When I look back at the last decade, I think the following: There are some very wealthy people, but a lot of their incomes are from financial innovations that do not translate to gains for the average American citizen.

And to be blunt—while I know I can't prove this—I wonder how much of the middle class consists of people in government or protected service-sector jobs who don't actually produce nearly as much as their pay.

A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.