Quotes About Income

I probably don't make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I'm one of the few middle class actors out there. The microcosm of Hollywood reflects the macrocosm of international finance.

An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on activities that they want to do, that are personally meaningful like art or, where human creativity still shines, in science.

My agent makes 10% of what you make. When your agent tells you to take a vacation, you know you're exhausted.

I have to be out there to sell these fights; it's not because I really enjoy getting made up and going to work every day. It's cool, it's an awesome job, but it's still a job. I'm doing it because it helps me make a living and not because I'm so extremely vain that I want to see my face everywhere.

Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.

Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

Most European countries fund their low corporate taxes with some form of a value-added tax, on consumption rather than income.

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.

In 1948, a married couple with the median income and two children paid only 2 percent of its income in state, federal, and social security taxes. In 1991 they paid 30 percent.

Even more important than saving money is making it.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.

As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism.

Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.