Quotes About Income

It's just nice to be employed.

If there's more employment, people buy more.

I was doing a lot of great theatre, but I just couldn't work out how to make ends meet.

I like the writing life, but it's not something that always makes enough money.

Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.

You don't get paid much until you establish yourself in cinema.

Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place

Laura had read somewhere that tweens—eight to fourteen-year-olds—had so much discretionary income and expensive tastes that they drove the whole economy. Not just the US economy, but the world's. She

she resided in Rock Cove, Maine—or the Lobster Tundra, as she'd jokingly dubbed it—had no job, and lived off a meager supplemental income from the government. Every day since the move, she thanked Jesus and her mother for teaching her to hoard her money like an old woman hoarded cats.

Real wages (adjusted for inflation) have been flat or down for decades. Millennials earn 20 percent less than their parents did at the same stage of their lives, according to a 2017 study by Young Invincibles, an advocacy group.

Would it be unreasonable to expect to find fulfilling, enjoyable, spiritually significant, income-producing work?

Los estudiantes acaban de descubrir una característica reveladora de la economía mundial: nuestra fortuna económica está determinada principalmente por dónde (en qué país) nacemos y, sólo de manera secundaria, por el lugar que ocupamos en la escala de distribución de ingresos.

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

Below an income of … $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. … Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Honours can generate a lot of income for the nation because they are viewed as so prestigious internationally.

I'm not out to max my income. I think my viewers would call me on that right away if I did.

I loved being able to support my family by making Vines.

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

From what little is known of Mr. Trump's tax returns, he used losses to offset virtually all of his taxable income for years by generating something called net operating loss carry-overs.

We will be returning to historical levels of inequality. We'll view post-war America as a kind of strange interlude not to be repeated. It won't be the dreams that we all had that virtually all incomes go up in lockstep at three percent a year. It hurts to give that up.

Universal basic income is not a solution in search of a problem - it is the obvious solution that has been in front of us for years. It only requires us to have the vision, empathy and courage to adopt it for the American people before it is too late.

What is thus improperly regarded as profit, instead of as part of capital, is consumed by the entrepreneur or passed on either to the consumer in the form of price-reductions that would not otherwise have been made or to the labourer in the form of higher wages, and the government proceeds to tax it as income or profits. In any case, consumption of capital results from the fact that monetary depreciation falsifies capital accounting.