Income Quotes · Page 10

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

— Warren Buffett

“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.”

— Suzy Kassem

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Individual income can grow only as fast as productivity rises.

— Alex Berenson

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

— Barry Goldwater

“Wealth - any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.”

— H.L. Mencken

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

— Edmund Wilson

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole…

— Austan Goolsbee

We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to…

— Sir John Richard Hicks

I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough…

— Jodi Rell

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession…

— R. H. Tawney

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do…

— Hector Hugh Munro

Anything in this culture that stands still long enough eventually becomes okay if a person can derive an income from it. Eventually,…

— Henry Rollins

Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be…

— John C. Bogle

Raising the federal minimum wage won't just put more money in the pocket of low-income families - it also means they spend…

— Hillary Clinton

The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment…

— Ludwig von Mises

The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting…

— George Orwell

Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be…

— Joel Achenbach

A man is still likely to earn more money than a woman, even one doing the same job. You have a far…

— Daniel Craig

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain…

— Paul Dirac

In fact, the corporations are driving out the competition and it is not getting better, especially when they are not paying income…

— Dolores Huerta

By using general consumption PPPs, the World Bank is, in effect, saying to the poor: "Sure, you cannot buy as much food…

— Thomas Pogge

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for…

— Alan Greenspan

“The scholars who research happiness suggest that more money stops making people happier at a family income of around seventy-five thousand dollars…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.…

— Joe Strummer

When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman's second priority is…

— Muhammad Yunus

I was brought up by a Victorian Grandmother. We were taught to work jolly hard. We were taught to prove yourself; we…

— Margaret Thatcher

When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least…

— Millicent Fenwick

The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize…

— Bernie Sanders

While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The…

— George Friedman

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the…

— Andrew Mellon

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

— John Cornyn

A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.

— Guy Standing

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

It is business that generates the jobs, income and taxes that keep a country going.

— Mark Skousen

The goal of retirement is to live off your assets, not on them.

— Frank Eberhart

I want to make sure that the American worker has an opportunity to see their wages rise and their incomes increase.

— Rick Santorum

In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.

— Bob Frank

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

— Anonymous