Income Quotes

• You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of your control. But you can control expenses.

  

  Sanford I. Weill
  • Conditions
  • Expenses
  • Banking

• Low-wage individuals barely get anything. I think we have to reward work, and I do think that we need to bump up the earned income tax credit to help low-wage workers.

  

  Mike Coffman
  • Anything
  • Workers
  • Bump

• We need to treat lower income workers a little better in Social Security.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Workers
  • Income
  • Social Security

• The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.

  

  Simon Kuznets
  • Nation
  • Welfare
  • Income

• The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.

  

  Nelson Rockefeller
  • Problem
  • Poverty
  • Farmers

• I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Equality
  • Socialism
  • Income

• A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Woman
  • Ridiculous
  • Narrow

• The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • Famous
  • Wanted
  • Abstraction

• Now DVD can represent more income than the box office - and typically does.

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
  • Income
  • DVD
  • Box Office

• A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Streams
  • Extravagance
  • Cascade

• You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.

  

  William J. H. Boetcker
  • Money
  • Trouble
  • Spending

• From an economic perspective, women are treated unfairly: they perform 66 percent of the world's work and produce 50 percent of the food but they only earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask - are we raising them for high income individuals that can afford it, and lowering them for lower income people who really need help. Those old categories don't work, and they're preventing us from solving them problems.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• It seems to me that it's better to allow people to have more spendable income.That helps 'LO stimulate the economy and create more jobs.

  

  George Deukmejian
  • People
  • Helping
  • Economy

• Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, although whether the net effect is to increase or reduce inequality is not clear.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Wealth
  • Distribution
  • Monetary Policy

• More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Firsts
  • Pay
  • Form

• The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Business
  • Giving
  • Tails

• If, for example, each of us had the same share of capital in the national total capital, then if the share of capital goes up it's not a problem, because you get as much as I do. The problem is that capital in capitalist countries is very heavily concentrated, especially financial capital. So then if the share of income from that source goes up, that actually exacerbates inequality.

  

  Branko Milanovic
  • Problems
  • Inequality
  • Capital

• Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • World
  • Earth
  • Energy

• You know what I figured out?" I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or I'm about to learn what a crappy shrink I am."

  

  Gail Giles
  • Hate
  • Loses
  • Chairs

• During these unstable times, let go of any fear or insecurity in your emotions. Look for new ways that you can be rewarded for your efforts. Believe in yourself and your ability to create new streams of income. Rather than continuing in a season of fear, let this be a time to transition into a season of creative success!

  

  Barbara Wentroble
  • Success
  • Emotions
  • Insecurity

• I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Doubt
  • Income
  • Exceed

• There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long as the income of 50 percent of the population is below the median." Mr. Vidal will take the affirmative.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Long
  • Population
  • Income

• Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.

  Sandra Lerner
  • People
  • Looks
  • Innovators

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