Quotes About Income

There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.

When you compare individuals, rather than countries, you find that education improves both income and the quality of life.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look?

That is why people have jobs and pay checks... it helps keep you from unanswerable questions.

Doctors quickly learn that how much they make has little to do with how good they are. It largely depends on how they handle the business side of their practice.

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.

I've earned quite a lot of money in Donetsk.

Most women's races don't pay much at all.

When I got my first check from 'Rack City,' I was like, 'Damn, I can make this much money making beats?'

I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.

I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.

There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise.

If every American automatically has health coverage, the age at which Medicare kicks in becomes a less fraught issue. We could gradually raise the age of Medicare eligibility a bit, according to income, and save money.

No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

Almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share.

In 2009, the 'New York Times' ran an analysis on the cost of being a LGBT couple trying to live as a married couple but without the same protections. Over a lifetime, they estimated a couple would spend as much as $467,562 more, and as little as $41,196, with costs running lower the higher your income.

I don't really care much about what the top one per cent earn. The gap we ought to care about in wealth is between the middle and the bottom.

The way I see it is, the better you play, the more money you're going to earn. It's like working in a car garage, the more cars you sell, the more money you're going to earn at the end of the day. It's how life works.

There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.