Income Quotes

“When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.”
― idowu koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.”
― Thomas Sowell

“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. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of a new scientific truth will be more important than the squabbles of diplomats. Even the newspapers of our own day are beginning to treat scientific discoveries and the creation of fresh philosophical concepts as news. The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

Progress along such lines will be impossible while nations persist in the savage practice of killing each other off. I inherited from my father, an erudite man who labored hard for peace, an ineradicable hatred of war.”
― Nikola Tesla

“Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleeds the same color and occupies the same world. Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.”
― Suzy Kassem

“We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water to survive and every human has a heart that bleeds, loves, and grieves.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I doubt the spread in annual wages (except for the osteopath) exceeded more than five thousand dollars. And other than the doctor (who made house calls), the store managers, the minister, the salesman, and the banker, everyone belonged to a union. That meant they worked a forty-hour week, had the entire weekend off (plus two to four weeks' paid vacation in the summer), comprehensive medical benefits, and job security. In return for all that, the country became the most productive in the world and in our little neighborhood it meant your furnace was always working, your kids could be dropped off at the neighbors without notice, you could run next door anytime to borrow a half-dozen eggs, and the doors to all the homes were never locked -- because who would need to steal anything if they already had all that they needed?”
― Michael Francis Moore, Here Comes Trouble

“I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).”
― Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda

“It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.”
― Masha Gessen, The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

“Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your life. More importantly, the fact that the citizens of a country work longer than others in comparable countries does not necessarily mean that they like working longer hours. They may be compelled to work long hours, even if they actually want to take longer holidays.”
― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

“The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse. If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself. If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly. Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man. The State does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle

“For there to be harmony and peace, everything must be balanced. And for there to be balance, there must be equality. And where there is equality, there will be justice. And where justice is honored and preserved, there will always be truth. Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleeds the same color and occupies the same world. Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them”
― Frank Eberhart

“The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.”
― Ellen Cushing

“Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle” that was “free of the fetters of capitalism.” The woman herself, when she was in college, had considered the conformist pressures of getting good grades, building a resume, and landing a job in some big corporation to be tedious and distasteful and had thought the life her husband wanted dovetailed with hers. They got married as soon as she graduated, and she got a job right after. She learned quickly that an “alternative lifestyle” meant nothing without a detailed, concrete plan, and living “free of the fetters of capitalism” meant working for places that didn’t pay their workers on time. As she worried about realizing this alternative lifestyle in the real world, she crumbled away under the pressures of working at a company in the non-profit sector that was run not by the normal labor of workers, but through their unrequited sacrifices. Meanwhile, her husband, who was her upperclassman in college but graduated later than she did, fiddled around in search of his ideal “alternative lifestyle” without ever settling down on any particular profession—the result being the twenty-million-won loan he had taken out and used up without her knowledge.”
― Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

“Love I must forego. I am not a man with an income.”
― Emma Frances Dawson, An Itinerant House, and Other Ghost Stories

“المساواة وعدالة التوزيع وإن كانت مفيدة في تسويق السلع والخدمات الضرورية فإنها لا تفيد في تسويق السلع الأكثر ترفاً والأعلى ربحاً، فمثلاً إذا خفض بشدة حجم الفجوة القائمة بين مستويات الدخول الدنيا والعليا، فالأرجح ألا يبقى شخص واحد قادراً على شراء سيارة خاصة، وإن كان الطلب سوف يزيد على وسائل المواصلات العامة ولكن الاحتفاظ بطبقة عليا متمتعة بامتيازات لا يتمتع بها غيرها، بل وخلق هذه الطبقة خلقاً إن لم تكن موجودة بالفعل، له مزاايا إضافية عدا تلك المتمثلة في تسويق السلع الترفيهية، من أهمها تسهيل تطبيق السياسات الاقتصادية الأكثر ملائمة لمصالح القوى المسيطرة.
فمن أجل ضمان استمرار الولاء من جانب الصفوة في داخل البلاد المتخلفة لابد أن يتعود أفراد هذه الصفوة على نمط من الحياة لا يمكن إستمراره إلا باستمرار نوع معين من العلاقات بين هذه البلاد المتخلفة والقوى الخارجية”
― جلال أمين, كشف الأقنعة عن نظريات التنمية الاقتصادية

“No wealthy person charges an hourly rate or has a fixed wage, they own assets and income generating investments.”
― Daniella Liberati, Beyond Money: Regaining Sovereignty, Rediscovering Humanity

“If you can't teach your earning methods to others, even to close ones, than whatever method you may be using is called cheating. irrespective of how high you earn.”
― Ansh - The Mystic RiderMystic Rider

“No one is satisfied with their income. Once they reach their maximum, they want more and more, so this cycle continues until they die.”
― Akalanka Ekanayake

“until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do far more harm than good.”
― Steve Corbett, When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself

“If you want to garner more income, make sure you pursue your dreams right now.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams

“Mr. earns and saves for family. Mrs. earns and saves for self.”
― Viyaanaha, Mr. - Untold story of husbands

“Consumption is Falling → Reduce inflation, boost middle-class spending power, and provide tax relief to increase disposable income.”
― Dipti Dhakul,

“More than that, though, Thanksgiving is a favorite at our house because it is a holiday that can’t be sold. Nobody exchanges Thanksgiving presents and hardly anybody sends Thanksgiving cards and not too many people go out and buy new wardrobes to wear to Aunt Clara’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. Just about the only people who see dollar signs on Thanksgiving are poultry farmers. Department stores ignore it. Television networks can’t use it to increase ratings. When it comes to generating income, Thanksgiving is less useful than President’s Day.”
― Daisy L. Stewart, Stepfathers Are People Too

“Diversification in business is like playing the game of Ayò, where every seed moved and dropped in the hole across the board represents your investments.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“Your savings, not your income, fuels your investments.”
― Manoj Arora, The Art of Saving Money: Grow Rich with the Money Monk | Transform the Way You Think About Savings, Investment and Growing Your Wealth

“John Norberg of the Cato Institute notes: 'If someone had told you in 1990 that over the next twenty-five years world hunger would decline by 40 per cent, child mortality would halve, and extreme poverty would fall by three quarters, you'd have told them they were a naive fool. But the fools were right. This is truly what has happened.' Having experienced Third World poverty as a child, I know that nothing drags down the human spirit more than a sense of helplessness, uncertainty and fear of the future. A small regular income and access to basic goods like TV sets and refrigerators also improve one's sense of well-being. In short, the eradication of poverty is spiritually uplifting.”
― Kishore Mahbubani, Has the West Lost It?: A Provocation

“In business, cash is seasonal, but in real estate, cash is scheduled.”
― Olawale Daniel