Quotes about Income

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the priviledge of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor shall be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

"On the first day of every week, each one of you is to put aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come, no collections will have to be made."

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.

The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.