Income Quotes

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. (Albert Einstein)
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. View quote
Oscar Wilde
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. View quote
Jane Austen
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. View quote
Barry Goldwater
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. View quote
Will Rogers
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. (Herman Wouk)
It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. View quote
Edmund Wilson
For too many, to work means having less income. View quote
Kim Campbell
The income tax is a much less effective tool for reducing inequalities than has often been thought. View quote
James Mirrlees
Income No. 3 must be deļ¬ned as the maximum amount of money which the individual can spend this week, and still be able to spend the same amount in real terms in each ensuing week. View quote
John Hicks
The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income. View quote
Simon Kuznets
If somebody prefers an income distribution more favorable to the poor for the sole reason that he is poor himself, this can hardly be considered as a genuine value judgment on social welfare. View quote
John Harsanyi
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. View quote
E. E. Cummings
You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off. View quote
Miley Cyrus
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. View quote
John Bates Clark
Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to. (Bobby Scott)
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality. View quote
Chris Chocola
After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits. View quote
Catherine Helen Spence
It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system. View quote
Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation. View quote
Michael Pollan