The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction,… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts;… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
If you no longer have any income, you will not be neglected-you will not starve to death. . . . We panic… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We believe we can dramatically improve the way Medicaid works by giving governors more control and flexibility to innovate to make it… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Today, its expensive prescription medications burdening seniors on fixed incomes with thousands of dollars in yearly out-of-pocket costs. — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The American business man cannot consider his work done when he views the income balance in black at the end of an… — Colby Mitchell Chester Copy Share Image
Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
While many have been left behind by Part D, there is a clear winner: the drug industry. Independent analysts predict that Part… — Louise Slaughter Copy Share Image
We had all the advantages of being in, you know, the '50s and the '60s, where a one-income household could actually support… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it… — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This… — Virgil Goode Copy Share Image
In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Real median household incomes in the U.S. were basically the same in 1989 as in 2014. But we are also seeing similar… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of… — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income. — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a… — Ice T Copy Share Image
The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people… — Jacquetta Hawkes Copy Share Image
It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people see streaming as a bad thing because of the royalty amount paid, but as more and more people get on… — Ryan Merchant Copy Share Image
Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth. — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I believe in diversification of income, because you never know what will happen. I'm a slightly paranoid person who thinks things could… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image