Quotes About Income

La destrucción creativa redistribuye no solamente la renta y la riqueza, sino también el poder político

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

The bottom line is that you and your partner are trading precious time in your life for this income. To me—and hopefully to you—that makes it critically important to ensure that you don't waste what you earn, but rather that you manage it efficiently and intelligently.

lo que determina su riqueza no es cuánto dinero gana sino cuánto dinero guarda de lo que gana.

The money folks will forgive a lot if the cash keeps rolling in. Same goes for the government.

Even a rich man can spend more than he's got coming in. And that makes him a poor man.

From 2003 to 2013, according to one study, itemized charitable contributions from people making $500,000 or more increased by 57 percent, while itemized contributions from people making $10,000,000 or more increased by 104 percent over the same period. Some 30,000 new private foundations have been created since 2000, along with 185,000 donor-advised funds, which offer a simpler way to channel money to charitable causes.

For periods of one to two years or less, investors ought to favor bank deposits, money-market funds or short-term bond funds.

En un estudio en Estados Unidos, por cada punto que se incrementa la inteligencia emocional, el salario aumenta en 1300 dólares al año (Bradberry y Greaves, 2009).

If you really look at something, you can almost always tell what type of wage structure the person who made it was on.

If every person is to be banished from society who runs into debt and cannot pay—if we are to be peering into everybody's private life, speculating upon their income, and cutting them if we don't approve of their expenditure—why, what a howling wilderness and intolerable dwelling Vanity Fair would be!

i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!

un agente de seguros. Qué horrible profesión: alimentar a tu familia de la paranoia ajena.

And given that my proposal were carried into effect, the only novelty in it is that, just as the individual in acquiring the ownership of a gang of slaves finds himself at once provided with a permanent source of income, so the state, in like fashion, should possess herself of a body of public slaves, to the number, say, of three for every Athenian citizen.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

People are not being paid enough, and we have not increased the minimum wage -- and we should be incentivizing the people who go to work. We should make working full-time something that will pay a living wage.

I forgave them, having surmised – correctly, as it turned out – that America was merely first in achieving a level of average income so high that even the mentally underprivileged were able to travel, and that shortly all the other industrialised countries would start exporting idiots too.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

most basic fact of accounting.

Even for women without children, trading hours that produce income for hours that produce "only" art seems like a foolish decision. What a loss for the world, though, to have women's voices silenced because art is our last priority.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.