Quotes About Income

The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time minimum wage workers. That's obscene.

Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.

You have a part-time job and that's better to no job at all

I believe in diversification of income, because you never know what will happen. I'm a slightly paranoid person who thinks things could be ruined at any time.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time.

Last time I looked at a [pay]check, I said to myself, 'Who the hell is FICA? And when I meet him, I'm going to punch him in the face. Oh my God, FICA is killing me.'

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

siguiera recibiendo el sueldo que le correspondía como profesor universitario cuando cumplió la edad de la jubilación

La igualdad ante la ley y la igualdad de oportunidades no significan la igualdad en los ingresos y en la renta

degradó cuando aquéllos, que recibían salarios de acuerdo al número de palabras que usaban en sus peroratas, empezaron a hinchar sus discursos para ganar más.

But birth control can also be compelled by sinful motivations. These can include putting lesser priorities like career above higher priorities like family or greedily wanting to make as much income as possible to the exclusion of everything else, and not incur the costs of child raising; being selfish and not wanting to have to care for a child; or immaturely not wanting to take on the responsibility that good parenting requires.

The passages seemed catacombs of a hell assigned to the subdued regret of those who had lacked in life the income to which they felt themselves entitled; this suspicion that the two houses were an abode of the dead being increased by the fact that no one was ever to be seen about, even at the reception desk.

That's the whole secret: earn more, spend less, and automate it.

it's not what you earn that matters, it's what you keep.

The amount that you contribute to the annuity, the length of time before you decide to access your income stream, and your age at the time your income begins are the primary factors that will ultimately contribute to the amount of income you'll receive.

Asset allocation, 2. Diversification, 3. Tax efficiency.

The other type of annuity is called a deferred annuity. This simply means you give the insurance company money either in one lump sum or over a period of years, and instead of receiving

an immediate income, your returns are reinvested in a tax-deferred environment so that when you're ready you can, at will, turn on the income stream you want for the rest of your life. You can literally have a schedule for what your income will be when you're 40, 50, 60—for every year of your life.

There are hundreds of ways you can retool your skill set. You can do it by going after a college education, a trade education, or self-education. You can earn $100,000 to millions a year, and not by just going and spending a boatload of money on a four-year college degree

Sólo hay una forma de mantener su riqueza y es sencillamente ésta: gaste menos de lo que ingresa, e invierta la diferencia.

If you're a high-income earner from California or New York with a 50% federal and state ordinary income tax, you're left with closer to 3% on your investment after all these fees and taxes.

How about REITs? David told me he likes "real estate investment trusts that own big central business district office buildings and big regional malls and industrial buildings. They generally throw off a high-income component.

Often, many of those who have earned millions of dollars haven't developed a plan to sustain their lifestyle without having to work at least some of the time.