Quotes About Income

If you're getting $80 a show, then you're not getting paid.

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

I am really fond of drawing, painting mehendi, so I would draw mehendi on a groom's hand and earn money.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

It's hard to live just by selling paintings.

I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken down irretrievably.

Because I'm not ambitious it's not paramount for me to find myself in a high-paid job.

A lot of people in MMA do part-time jobs.

In this country, we have partnerships, we have S corps, we have LLCs, we have a series of entities that do not pay corporate income tax.

We're passing milestones all the time on the amount of money our community developers are making. And we're seeing developers that are making $250,000 a year.

Lending Club is changing the face of lending by removing the bank from the process. It operates online bringing together investors and borrowers directly so that both can benefit. The borrower benefits by getting a lower interest rate and easy access to funds and the investor benefits by earning a higher return than traditional fixed income investments.

Solving problems and settling issues is good lawmaking, but it's not lucrative. It is gridlock, confusion, and rehashing fights that create streams of income—like an annuity—for the Permanent Political Class.

A one-star Army general with forty years of service can earn up to $143,000 per year in basic pay. A freshman congressman starts out at $174,000. If he becomes Speaker of the House, he can pull down $223,500.1

Based on a survey by MarkPlus Insight in 2015, about 74 percent of Indonesian women managed all the family finances—controlling even the income of their spouses—although only 51 percent of them were working.

Passion does not translate easily into good income.

In an affluent society there ought to be an income floor under every man below which society will not allow him to go – and this ought to come as a right and not as a charity.

In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil rights movement, I was able to visit with several of the leading Gandhians there. The hundred-to-one difference in average per capita income between America and India at the time was a stark reality for the people who became my friends there.

When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.

My father was a truck driver, made $50 a week. And the reason why I know that so vividly is my Mom used to just constantly give him a hard time for that.

The government's goal is to provide income support for families most affected by socio-economic hardship. The support... will be conditional on vocational training and job reintegration.