income quotes

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they’re learned to do more with less, and so they don’t hire.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players‘ equipment.

The real minimum wage is zero.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

I just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.