Income Quotes - Page 38

• According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Religious, Determination, Thinking

  Gretchen Rubin (2015). “The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.9, HarperCollins

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• When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Couple, Husband, Divorce

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.127, Knopf

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• He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronnie and Veronica, who have each other and their daughter, Emily, and a good income and a house and everything else that keeps people from calling them "odd.

  Matthew Quick

  Daughter, Heart, Thinking

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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• I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd failed to file my damned income tax. One of the stems had broken off of my reading glasses. There were ants in my apartment. I needed to get my teeth cleaned. My shoes were run down at the heels. I had insomnia. My auto insurance had expired. I cut myself every time i shaved. I hadn't laughed in 6 years. I tended to worry when there was nothing to worry about. And when there was something to worry about, i got drunk.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Reading, Cutting

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• A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Wife, Wealth

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1868). “John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people”, p.109

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• Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Flower, Simplicity

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Letters of James Russell Lowell”

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• I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.

  Elihu Root

  Law, Jail, Understanding

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• Most of the presidential candidates' economic packages involve 'tax breaks,' which is when the government, amid great fanfare, generously decides not to take quite so much of your income. In other words, these candidates are trying to buy your votes with your own money.

  Dave Barry

  Government, Presidential, Trying

  "The Bucks Drop Here". Washington Post Magazine, February 9, 1992.

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• The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Class, People

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• If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

  R. H. Tawney

  Inspirational, Children, Work

  R. H. TAWNEY (1920). “THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY”

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• There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a low income family that's living next door, that playing field is not level, is not fair.

  Robert D Bullard

  Time, Powerful, Doors

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• My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.

  Stephen A. Schwarzman

  Levels, Wealth, States

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• What we did with deeming rules were designed - it was designed to keep costs from coming on to the government that should be borne by families of immigrants who actually have incomes and can afford to pay.

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Immigration, Cost

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• Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

  Alan Greenspan

  America, Labor Force, Competition

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• Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems. The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.

  Alan Greenspan

  Two, Opening Up, People

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• I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage and have barely tolerable working conditions because there are sufficient undocumented workers willing to accept those terms. If we care about low-income workers in this country, we need to create pressure to improve their economic condition by reducing the supply of unauthorized workers.

  Maria Echaveste

  Country, Working Conditions, Low Income

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• The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations, and steers resolutely toward bankruptcy.

  Peter Kropotkin

  People, Liberty, Generations

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• The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first.

  Paul Houston

  Kids, Justice, Diversity

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• It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.

  R. H. Tawney

  Educational, Ignorance, Opportunity

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• Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.

  John W. Snow

  Success, Congratulations, Mean

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.

  Sun Tzu

  Home, Army, Loss

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited .

  Kirk Kerkorian

  Strength, Encouragement, Strong

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• Guess you lose some & win some, long as the outcome is income.

  Drake

  Humble, Winning, Long

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• I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

  Jack Steinberger

  Hard Times, Engineering, Students

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• All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of rich world income. The effort required of the rich is indeed so slight that to do less is to announce brazenly to a large part of the world: 'You count for nothing.' We should not be surprised, then, if in later years the rich reap the whirlwind of that heartless response.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Years, Effort, Heartless

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