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Income Quotes

"When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall."

"When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall."

Paul Harvey, American Journalist

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"The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California."

"The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California."

Alice Rivlin, American Economist

Income, Inequality, Pressure, Workers

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"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."

"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."

Edmund Wilson, American Critic

Income, Nothing

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"Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense."

"Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense."

Max Frisch, Swiss Novelist

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"I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about."

"I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about."

Ice T, American Musician

Income, Rap, Zone

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"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."

"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."

Logan P. Smith, American Writer

Income, Temperament

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"These days an income is something you can't live without - or within."

"These days an income is something you can't live without - or within."

Tom Wilson, American Cartoonist

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"So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive."

"So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive."

Mitch Daniels, American Politician

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"Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does."

"Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does."

Michael Nesmith, American Musician

Income, Now, Office

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"Expenditures rise to meet income."

"Expenditures rise to meet income."

C. Northcote Parkinson, British Historian

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"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."

"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."

Logan P. Smith, American Writer

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

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

e. e. cummings, American Poet

Income, Living, May

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"My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way."

"My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way."

Kevin J. Anderson, American Writer

Income, Writing

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"If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore."

"If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore."

Henry Thomas, American Actor

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"It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified."

"It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified."

Kim Campbell, Canadian Statesman

Income, Problems, Security, Training

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"There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!"

"There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!"

Nat King Cole, American Musician

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"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"

"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"

Bill Veeck, American Businessman

Income, Play, Taxes, Want

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"I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."

"I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."

Wilkie Collins, English Novelist

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"A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income."

"A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

Income, Man, Will, Wit

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"If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins."

"If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins."

John Bates Clark, American Economist

Income, Isolation, Living, Man

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"Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind."

"Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind."

George Gilder, American Writer

Income, Mind, Poverty, State

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

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

Edward Gibbon, English Historian

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"I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."

"I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."

Will Durant, American Historian

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"But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect."

"But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect."

James Payn, English Novelist

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"Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity."

"Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity."

Thomas H. Kean, American Politician

Income, Prosperity, Taxes

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"The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value."

"The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value."

Irving Fisher, American Economist

Income, Interest

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"The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve."

"The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve."

Mike Thompson, American Politician

Income, Now, Sales

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

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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