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Quotes About Income

The write must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money
~ Karl Marx
The average price of wage-labor, is the minimum wage ...
~ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.
~ Jack Benny
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
~ Lord Chesterfield
You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
~ Warren Farrell
Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.
~ Will Rogers
I think that indicates why men tend to invest more wealth. If he loses some, there's more coming in. Whereas for women, it's like "Ugh, I gotta keep this."
~ Sallie Krawcheck
Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
~ Warren Farrell
How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?
~ Henry George
A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.
~ H. L. Mencken
A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
~ Charles Spurgeon
My idea is that we've worked so many years for equality, but the only area where we've achieved equality, with men, is in job loss. We are still 77 cents to the dollar.
~ Carolyn Maloney
Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job.
~ Dana Goldstein
I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
~ Eddi Reader
Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.
~ Frederic Bastiat
HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
~ George Bernard Shaw
No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
~ Michel de Montaigne
He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American.
~ Mitt Romney
Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.
~ Ryan White
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
~ Ethel Waters
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
~ Oscar Wilde
If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
~ Warren Buffett
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
~ John Locke