Quotes About Income

The easiest way to understand this is, it's exactly what Social Security does. With Social Security, you know, you're paying in over your lifetime while you're working, and then when you retire, you get paid back income every month for as long as you live.

It is not realistic to finance a 30-year retirement with 30 years of work. You can't expect to put 10% of your income aside and then finance a retirement that's just as long.

We all need an income that we can count on. Consistent cash flow that shows up in our account every single month, like clockwork.

And lack of income is stress. Lack of income is struggle. Lack of income is not an acceptable outcome for you and your family. Make this your declaration.

Always remember that income is the outcome.

One of my favorites that I mentioned to you already is investing in senior housing, where you get both the income and the potential growth in appreciation as well.

senior housing facilities are a way to own income-producing real estate that is also tied to what I call a "demographic inevitability": a wave of 76 million baby boomers who are aging and will require the use of these facilities.

After you give away 10 percent of your income, take another 10 percent to reduce your debts and a third 10 percent to build up capital to invest. You need to live on 70 percent of what you have.

a young man without an income cannot be accepted as a fitting suitor for a gentleman's daughter.

Men must have mercenary tendencies or they would not have bread. The man who ploughs that he may live does so because he, luckily, has a mercenary tendency.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

it is the only advanced society in which the incomes of the majority have not risen in the 1980s and 1990s, despite steady increases in productivity.

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

It shows him to be a very wealthy man. How did he acquire wealth? He is unmarried. His younger brother is a station master in the west of England. His chair is worth seven hundred a year.

Doctor, I wish you'd make in a month what I lose in a year. Then you'd say I was a friend of yours.

Each day it was getting more and more difficult for an honest man to make a living.

7 per cent of all the families in the country earned $500 a year or less—remember, those weren't the unemployed, on relief; those were the guys that had the honor of still doing honest labor.

Era, por tanto, libre como una alondra -es decir, todo lo libre que se puede ser con un ingreso diario de once chelines y medio-.

You can Cut Back or you can Make More Money

If you've been frugal during your life and tried to save, you're penalised by the tax system. You pay tax on your wages, your savings and even your private pension.

I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a year to sort of fill in, because they pay pretty well.

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.