Quotes About Income

If you make a good income each year and spend it all, you are not getting wealthier. You are just living high. Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.

The "some college," "four-year college graduate," and "no college" types who have high incomes often had a head start on many well-educated workers.

There are two distinct classes of men in the nation, those who pay taxes, and those who receive and live upon the taxes.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

Those] on fixed incomes are the nation's math elite.

Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?

There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

It's not fair that teachers are getting low income to where they get frustrated to where they don't even want to teach.

If the American public is so into morality in movies, why don't they throw more of their disposable income at religious-themed entertainment? For every 'Passion of the Christ,' there's a 'Fireproof' that comes and goes with no notice.

It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.

Some jobs you do because they pay the bills. Other jobs nourish the soul.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

I can bet Salman doesn't earn that much... well, at least nowhere near me.

Nurses don't get paid very much. It didn't take long to realize that I could make more as a writer. I loved nursing, but I loved writing more.

Hey, we have obligations. We all work for a living now.

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.

I used to say the wealthiest among us have to pay our fair share, which I still occasionally say. That's not dodging the word 'millionaire.'

Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far.

The little difference between what we earn and what we spend is capital.