Income Quotes

So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can't put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation.

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody.

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

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.

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

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase.

While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

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

The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

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.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

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

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.

We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security.