Quotes About Income

A large part of the income of the 'Big 5' accountancy and consultancy firms derives from tax avoidance schemes which flourish in the name of tax planning. Their legality has agitated courts in India and abroad for a long time.

My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.

My goal was to play 350-capacity rooms in the U.K. and, if I was lucky, 100-capacity rooms in Europe. I just wanted to play music and make money off it.

Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.

In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all.

The economics of theater are painful. I still think that the theater community should be looking much more rigorously at how to let the playwright keep the money they make.

I don't know of any American playwrights who earn the bulk of their living writing plays. Many of the older ones teach, while a growing number of younger ones write for series television.

At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.

Money has never been an issue with me. I will make and continue to make plenty of money.

I pay myself three, three and half million - which is plenty of money, c'mon.

One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was always doing this for free. It is so important to make a good living from art. You know, John Cage, until he was 60, he couldn't pay electricity.

If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King. We had to come up with ways to create an income.

One of the best ways to grow this economy is to put money in people's pockets.

I want to put money back in people's pockets.

The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.

My mother worked at home, making clothes, trying to make some money.

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

I mean, really, compared to a senior civil servant, I'm very modestly paid!

Economic liberalisation has seen a big and often well-deserved spurt in executive compensation, especially for professional managers.

I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.