Income Quotes
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It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.
Thomas Hobbes -
We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.
Barbara Mikulski
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The only things stopping me today are: genetics, lack of will, income, brain chemistry and external events.
Eddie Pepitone -
Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.
Evan Esar -
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 -
We support any deal that denies Iran nuclear weapons, that has a continuous and robust inspection mechanism and that has snap-back provisions in case Iran violates the agreement. Our concern is that Iran will use the income it receives as a result of the lifting of the nuclear sanctions in order to fund its nefarious activities in the region.
Adel al-Jubeir -
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 -
A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.
William Shenstone
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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 -
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 -
I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,
W. S. Gilbert -
Your income right now is a result of your standards, it is not the industry, it is not the economy.
Anthony Robbins -
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 -
I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.
Jane Austen
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The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.
Nelson Rockefeller -
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
William Booth -
The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.
Seth MacFarlane -
Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.
Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots -
People in the rich countries who have done very well, who are at the top of the income pyramid, try to steamroll over the opposition of the middle without changing anything in social programs, or any redistribution. And they take their votes for a given. They have rich people that bankroll them. And the globalization would continue, but it would continue with permanent dissatisfaction among large segments of the people.
Branko Milanovic -
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
George Foreman
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
George Bernard Shaw -
Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
William Shatner -
We think people who make a lot of income and have a lot of net-worth are pretty well served.
Noah Kerner -
We started out covering income inequality in the magazine Mother Jones, but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.
Clara Jeffery