Income Quotes - Page 19

• At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

  Lou Holtz

  Average, Balance, Twenties

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• I was brought up by a Victorian Grandmother. We were taught to work jolly hard. We were taught to prove yourself; we were taught self reliance; we were taught to live within our income. You were taught that cleanliness is next to Godliness. You were taught self respect. You were taught always to give a hand to your neighbour. You were taught tremendous pride in your country. All of these things are Victorian values. They are also perennial values. You don't hear so much about these things these days, but they were good values and they led to tremendous improvements in the standard of living.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Pride, Grandmother

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• That whole 99% thing, they are all in the 1% of the world. Every one of them pays a cellphone bill that is the yearly income for a family in much of the rest of the world.

  Penn Jillette

  World, Pay, Bills

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• The United States has worse income inequality than Nigeria.

  Max Fisher

  United States, Inequality, Nigeria

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You take the huge income that comes with a big gas tax, and you use it to pay off regressive taxes like the FICA [Federal Insurance Contributions Act] tax. You can help the poor in other ways besides giving them cheap gas. You want to send the message that people want to be as efficient as possible using gasoline until we can transition away from that need entirely.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  People, Giving, Transition

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide income tax and who put Syria and Iran on their Human Rights Committee.

  Arthur L. Herman

  Rights, Iran, Want

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• Think of at least three ways to generate income from your knowledge, passion and expertise. Yes, there may be a learning curve until you are actually doing it, but you're going to love the extra money flowing in.

  Meera Lester

  Passion, Thinking, Curves

  Meera Lester (2009). “365 Ways to Live Happy: Simple Ways to Find Joy Every Day”, p.82, Adams Media

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• Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.

  Bob Burg

  People, Determined, Giver

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2017

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• I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.

  Arnold Kling

  Believe, Disease, Poverty

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• In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.

  James Rosen

  War, Vietnam, Advertising

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• Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.

  Jordana Spiro

  Careers, Attention

  "Q&A with Jordana Spiro". Interview with Rachel Bertsche, www.oprah.com. March 23, 2009.

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• Too many companies these days can't tell the difference between good profits and bad.... By now you're probably wondering how in heaven's name profit, that holy grail of the business enterprise, can ever be bad. Short of outright fraud, isn't one dollar of earnings as good as another? Certainly, accountants can't tell the difference between good and bad profits. They all look the same on an income statement. While bad profits don't show up on the books, they are easy to recognize. They're profits earned at the expense of customer relationships.

  Fred Reichheld

  Book, Names, Differences

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• The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Player, Chinese, Argentina

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end up living a pretty rough life. At a young age, I just knew I wasn't going to give in because I didn't want to end up being one of those people in the neighborhood that didn't have anything and lived a hard life.

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  People, Giving, Age

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• 1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. And often the lamp will fall over and catch the house on fire. So mothers hate it, but it's their only option.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Mother, Hate, Fall

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Real, Blow, Risk

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fall, Government, Should Have

  "Bernie Sanders On Being Jewish And A Democratic Socialist". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 6, 2015.

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• The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don't tend to spend it as much as the poorer people would if they got another $100 or $1,000 or $5,000. All the empirical evidence suggests that the rich tend to consume a lower proportion of income than middle and lower-income people.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  People, Rich, Middle

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.

  Brian Tracy

  Years, Minutes, Ifs

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• So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton. Back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires to boot. ... At the same time, most people agree that we should not raise taxes on middle-class families or small businesses -- not when so many folks are just trying to get by.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Believe, Years

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• Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

  Ron Paul

  World, Taxes, Income Tax

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• Get rid of IRS; get rid of income tax; get rid of spending.

  Ron Paul

  Irs, Spending, Taxes

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• I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist, then art is what you do, whether or not you're paid for doing it; it is what you do, not what you are. I regard artist not as a description of temperament but as a category of profession, of vocation.

  Tony Kushner

  Art, Thinking, Description

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• Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in the rich unjust society will become.

  Dorothee Solle

  Heart, Mean, Unjust Society

  Dorothee Sölle (1990). “Thinking about God: an introduction to theology”, Trinity Pr Intl

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• Here's what income and wealth inequality is about. Last year, the top 25 hedge fund managers made more than 24 billion, enough to pay the salaries of 425,000 public school teachers. This level of inequality is neither moral or sustainable

  Bernie Sanders

  Teacher, School, Years

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