Quotes About Income

As a TV actor, I was making money and spending it and always felt a certain void in terms of work.

Income-producing unit trusts are brilliant because if you can accept capital values will be volatile for a while, your dividend income will always be higher than what you get in the bank.

When traders were able to earn a million dollars, of which base pay was $150,000 to $200,000 and the rest was bonus, they would go for it. Now if you're sitting there earning $600,000, you become less risk-seeking. And if you have less risk-seeking, the ability of the market to be incredibly volatile is increased.

People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.

In Europe, you would almost never have people with large amounts of income being happy with a two-volume vehicle like a hatchback or a minivan. They want to structurally show their societal position, which is why three volumes are so popular. They show 'I'm part of that hierarchy.'

While other individuals or institutions obtain their income by production of goods and services and by the peaceful and voluntary sale of these goods and services to others, the State obtains its revenue by the use of compulsion; that is, by the use and the threat of the jailhouse and the bayonet.

I did the Labour thing because I wanted my community to be better off. I'm pretty sure people are aware of the kind of money I make. I'm not telling people to vote Labour to benefit me.

What the voters want to know is who is going to get out there, fight for them, and deal with the income gap that exists in the nation today.

Large majorities of voters support taxing millionaires and protecting social security.

Selling music doesn't make that much money.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

A very small proportion of the country's black money is in the movie industry. Because we are written about, public attention is focused on us. Do you think there is no black money in other businesses? With the exception of government servants and others who have tax deducted at source, there are tax evaders in every walk of life.

I want every player to get as much money as possible, just for the health of the game - if players are getting paid, then the game's healthy and people are showing up and watching.

The economic reality is that, thanks to smart machines and global trade, the well-paying, middle-class jobs that were the backbone of Western democracies are vanishing.

You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.

I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.

I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank.

I look at my bank account every day. I constantly think about what is going in and out, and I will always try to save money on something if I can.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.

If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.

You have to have the same power to lead the life you want as a man does, and that means earning the same amount of money. We still have a battle on our hands with that.

I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.