Quotes About Income

Most people who avoid quitting their jobs entertain the thought that the job will improve with time or with an increased income. This is a tempting hallucination that occurs when a job is boring or uninspiring, instead of being pure hell. Pure hell forces action, but anything less than this can be endured with enough rationalization.

Six shillings a week does not keep body and soul together very unitedly.

It's quite a thing when the world is upside down to hear someone say it don't have to be—that a man could be paid enough to feed and house himself.

What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.

The most lucrative work I have done is presenting primetime TV shows. I do not know what other people earn but a six-figure salary is not uncommon.

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.

I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.

You can't receive a living wage unless you work.

Either make your money work for you or you will always have to work for your money.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.

Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less... but that means I rarely sell.

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

I don't think you want to hurt businesses that are making $250,000 or $500,000. Those are the real people who created the opportunity to put people to work.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

If you really want to end income inequality, I've got the way to fix it. People who don't work shouldn't get any income.

If you don't work, you shouldn't have an income. If you don't work, you shouldn't get paid.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not.

Realize that you earn income by providing value - not time - so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it.

I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.