Quotes About Income

I made my money with good investments, I'm going to make maybe $1 million a year just with my real estate.

I'm an artist but I'm also a real person. I have bills like everyone else.

Once Africans realise we can just fight and get paid for it, we can do that and still provide for ourselves and our families and countries? We're going to flood the market.

I think what's happened to America, in a cultural sense, is we stopped getting richer as a country in the early 1970s, but we haven't adjusted our consumption patterns in any way, shape or form to meet the realities of the new lower income.

People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

You can be in the Bay and sell 10,000 copies of independent records and make 50 grand and that's your job for the year. The shows you do off of that and them 10,000 sales is gonna feed you and your homies.

Honestly so much money gets taken for taxes from contest winnings that you have to be smart with it. People think that because I won 200 grand, I actually got 200 grand, but a big chunk of that gets taken out. You have to be very smart with your money.

I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part. But I remember thinking this would be a great way of making a living... to be an actor. I never really thought I'd make a lot of money at it.

The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

I remember talking to an architect and he said 'I am making so much money I don't know what to do' - I am in a business where you don't have an idea from one end of the year to the next how what you are going to earn and it is not like a salary that you can guarantee.

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

There is nothing wrong with making money, but it was just not in my family's habits to know how to do that. All we knew how to do was work, and we usually liked the work we did.

income potential, full ownership, appreciation of equity, and tax deductions.

tax laws allow you to offset your earned income by up to $25,000 in passive losses from real estate, as long as your adjusted gross income is below $100,000.

Brendan makes $200,000 a year in his pool cleaning business. As a single-member LLC, he would pay over $18,000 in payroll taxes on the entire $200,000 profit. If Brendan used an S corporation and paid himself a $72,000 a year salary and flowed the rest through as profits without payroll taxes, his payroll taxes would be $11,000 per year. As such, Brendan could save $7,000 a year, year in and year out, by using an S corporation over an LLC. Who says choice of entity isn't important?

To avoid the double tax of a C corporation, most C corporation owners make sure there are no profits at the end of the year. Instead, they use all the write-offs allowed to reduce their net income.

When shareholders receive distributions from a corporation the transaction is taxed.

In a C corporation, the profits are taxed at the corporate level and then taxed again when a dividend is paid to the shareholder.

In the meanwhile this Yeoman began to smile. "Brother," said he, "do you wish me to tell you? I am a Fiend. My dwelling is in Hell. And here on Earth I ride about looking for gain, to learn where men will give me any thing. My acquisitions are the sum of all my income. Look how you ride for the same intent. To gain money, you care not how. And so do I, for I would ride to the end of the World to catch my prey.

We are so dependent on luck, good and bad. I think of those men and women—cases faintly parallel to mine—who live in one room and eat poorly and lie in bed, since their incomes are too small for any marked activity. Their lives would be unbearable were it not for their hopes of good luck and fears of bad. They have, in fact, little of either; but illusion magnifies what there is.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep

Seven cures for a lean purse ; 1. Start thy purse to fattening 2. Control thy expenditures 3. Make thy gold multiply 4. Gaurd thy treasures from loss 5. Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment 6. Insure a future income 7. Increase thy ability to earn