Quotes About Income

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money.

If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.

It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.

Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.

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.

We have long understood that it is not income that matters but consumption. Stripped to its essentials, the argument is that if somehow the consumption of middle-class householders keeps up, if they can afford a new car every few years and the occasional exotic holiday, perhaps they will pay less attention to their stagnant monthly paychecks.

Higher income either indicates higher intelligence or lesser morals!

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.

This was the beginning of real income for McDonald's. Harry devised a formula for the monthly payments being made by our operators that paid our own mortgage and other expenses plus a profit.

The sales tax seems to be more politically acceptable than the income tax.

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

That is sort of the backbone for 'Star-ving.' People just assumed that I am completely loaded. I do all right. I have to be careful.

As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

Im proud to be a 50 per cent tax-payer, very proud of it.

If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough?

I'll do something that brings me a check.

What's really nice is when you get a check in the mail.

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

All I've got to do is win at the end of the day and the checks keep coming in.

$3,000 from a residual cheque was all I made one year.

I love fighting. It gives me a cheque to pay for my food and for my accommodation and that's great but I just love to fight.