Income Quotes

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  If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Business, Work

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• Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

  John Locke

  Funny, Money, Shoes

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• It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Witty, Money

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

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• We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

  Joe Scarborough

  Stupid, Giving, People

  "Big Hurdles Remain To A Deal In Budget Talks" by John King, www.cnn.com. July 20, 1997.

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• It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

  Leonard Orr

  Imagination, Debt

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• Income seldom exceeds personal development.

  Jim Rohn

  Development, Personal Development, Exceed

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 11, 2017

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

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Political, Criminals

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• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  Cal Thomas

  Gun, Government, People

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• And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

  Alfred Marshall

  Character, Way, Influence

  Alfred Marshall (2006). “Elements of Economics of Industry: Being the First Volume of Elements of Economics”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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• America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Color, America, Low Income

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• I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

  Edward Gibbon

  Money, Wish, Rich

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• For too many, to work means having less income.

  Kim Campbell

  Mean

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Money, Humor

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• It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Funny Work, Might, Said

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• The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

  Jim Clyburn

  Low Income, Minimum Wage, Lines

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• I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

  Martin Mull

  Records, Television, More Time

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• An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Way

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• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Inspiring, Happy

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 22

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• I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Connections, Use, Taxes

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• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  e. e. cummings

  Witty, Art, Money

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• The average net worth of the lower half of the distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013. About one-fourth of these families reported zero wealth or negative net worth, and a significant fraction of those said they were "underwater" on their home mortgages, owing more than the value of the home. This $11,000 average is 50 percent lower than the average wealth of the lower half of families in 1989, adjusted for inflation.

  Janet Yellen

  Zero, Home, Average

  Janet Yellen's Speech At the Conference on Economic Opportunity and Inequality at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. October 17, 2014.

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• Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Future, Self

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 10, 2012

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• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, People, Realizing

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1997). “De oratore: Book III ; De fato ; Paradoxa stoicorum ; De partitione oratoria”

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• I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

  Noel Coward

  Birthday, Tuesday, Age

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