Income Quotes
“Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources” — Jim Rohn
“When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income” — Chi Chi Rodriguez
“Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit” — George Bernard Shaw
“Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so” — Josh Billings
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery” — Charles Dickens
“Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband” — H.L. Mencken
“Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college” — Bill Vaughn
“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart” — e e cummings
“People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can’t live within its income” — Robert Half
“My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income” — Errol Flynn
“On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made” — 1 Corinthians 16:2
“Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income” — Ecclesiastes 5:10
“We should be addressing income inequality, creating a jobs program, raising the minimum wage, passing pay equity for women and expanding social security” — Bernie Sanders
“The obscene and increasing level of wealth and income inequality in this country is immoral, un-American and unsustainable” — Bernie Sanders
“The issue of wealth and income inequality is the great economic issue of our time, the great political issue of our time, and the great moral issue of our time” — Bernie Sanders
“The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority” — Janet Yellen
“By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average during that time span and probably higher than for much of American history before then” — Janet Yellen
“Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man’s true worth” — Criss Jami
“Today, the United States is No. 1 in billionaires, No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world” — Bernie Sanders
“The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor. The wages of the righteous bring them life, but the income of the wicked brings them punishment” — Proverbs 10:15-16
“Despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others” — Walt Whitman
“Shall you wait for some interest to fall due, or for some income on your merchandise, or for a place in the will of some wealthy old man, when you can be rich here and now” — Seneca
“I think that we’ve had an economy that’s been out of balance for too long. So the general principle of raising taxes on higher income Americans, like myself, and providing relief to those who haven’t benefited as much from this new global economy, I think is a sound one” — Barack Obama
“Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income” — Ecclesiastes 5:10
“Life is about making an impact, not making an income” — Kevin Kruse
“If I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government. And that’s close to 40% of our national income” — Milton Friedman
“It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to derive a permanent future income from it – to convert wealth that perishes into debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain, and brings in perennial interest” — Frederick Soddy
“Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip” — Charles Caleb Colton
“Added income is far less likely to produce an increase in happiness than the addition of a regular walk” — Kerry Patterson
“All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income” — Samuel Butler
“1 in 10 dollars of income produced in this country is paid out to the richest 1% without them having to work for it” — Matt Bruenig
“The assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he is unable to provide for himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a risk common to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society” — Friedrich Hayek
“A certain small income, sufficient for necessities, should be secured for all, whether they work or not” — Bertrand Russell
“What a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. No force in the world can take from me my five hundred pounds. Food, house, and clothing are mine forever. Therefore not merely do effort and labour cease, but also hatred and bitterness. I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me” — Virginia Woolf
“In the next stage of the data economy, online income from digital labor will replace wages earned offline, allowing us to make a living off the data we share” — Toni Fan
“You may find yourself unfulfilled if your focus is on making an income rather than making an impact” — Kora-Lea Vidal
“There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out” — Thomas Carlyle
“To double your income, triple your investment in self-development” — Robin Sharma
“Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order” — Nikola Tesla
“Guess you lose some & win some, long as the outcome is income” — Drake
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of” — Jane Austen
“I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income” — Will Durant
“We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts” — George Washington Carver
“I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes” — Kahlil Gibran
“The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income” — George Foreman
“You’re MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output” — Fred Rogers
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating” — Oscar Wilde
“Successful retirement takes place when you no longer need to work for money. Rather, the work you do is motivated by higher-level goals and purposes, not income generation” — Rand Bennett
“There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail” — Robert Frost