Quotes About Income

Its amazing how we will do whatever it takes to move our careers forward and increase our incomes, yet we do NOT hold the same regard for our relationships and marriages in which doing whatever it takes would improve our lives expeditiously and give us peace of mind.

And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you ' it still doesn't solve the debt.

In his book Average Is Over, economist Tyler Cowen sees a future in which high earners are those who "get" computers and information technology. Low earners, he argues, will be those who don't—the less technologically adept who will be forced to work in jobs attending to the needs and wants of the high earners.

A farm is like a man—however great the income, if there is extravagance but little is left.

expenditure on food does not increase in the same ratio as income, but becomes relatively lower. People learn to expect that food will be cheap; money is for spending on other things.

Less is paid for food, in terms of percentage of income, in North America than anywhere else on earth since the history of universal "incomes" began.

If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.

I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.

I like working with the public, I like working with food, and I like making cash.

To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

In todays uncertain economy, the safest solution to be wealthy, be in total control and enjoy freedom for you and your family is to have multiple streams of income.

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.

I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.

The actual growth in a persons life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income.

You can get up to a million dollars or more in life insurance in case you die. But can only get about seven or eight bucks an hour to live.

You see, the way my bank account is set up...