Quotes About Income

By the end of 2007, UK household debt had reached 177% of disposable income, mortgage debt 132%. Martin Wolf wrote in the Financial Times in September 2008

I know what the value [of storytelling] is to me -- varied and huge, giving me everything from delight, to knowledge, to access to friends and colleagues, a desirable identity through valued work, escape from pain, and a steady income. Not bad, for something so intangible as making and selling dream-by-number kits.

offering you a hundred and eighty dollars, pure profit, and no worries.

that the reason why Morgan & Co. are so insistent on increasing the dividend from 4 to 6% is to enable them to sell out their stocks at a very high figure on the basis of the increased dividend.

Reasonably generous in wages, salaries, and pensions, he paid somewhat above the industry average.

Trying to equalize his status with his brothers, Frank lived on a lavish scale that far outstripped his income.

he was frustrated that he couldn't give money away quickly enough to keep pace with his mounting income.

Junius pocketed a fortune from this sudden windfall.

He was receiving about $3 million yearly in Standard Oil dividends (more than $50 million in 1996 dollars) and redirecting that into a vast portfolio of outside investments that made him a one-man holding company.

The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Understand that you need to sell you and your ideas in order to advance your career, gain more respect, and increase your success, influence and income.

You can make money two ways - make more, or spend less.

If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income.

You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

remembering what a struggle it had been to provide for them all on an income of only £50.00 per annum.

We need an economy that rewards work, not just wealth.

The Philippines has no indigenous, value-added manufacturing capacity. At the end of the Second World War only Japan and Malaysia had higher incomes per capita in Asia. Then Korea and Taiwan overtook the Philippines in the 1950s. The country slid down past Thailand in the 1980s, and Indonesia more recently. From having been in a position near the top of the Asian pile, the Philippines today is an authentic, technology-less Third World state with poverty rates to match.

Deininger's two big conclusions are that land inequality leads to low long-term growth and that low growth reduces income for the poor but not for the rich.

In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income.

There's no way a fighter should fight and put his life on the line, and a promoter makes more money than he makes.

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.