Top 1200 Income Distribution Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

Me, coming from a low-income background, I really didn't take my studies serious as a young kid.

I went to the top of the mountain in television and could do anything I wanted, but I wanted to do an independent film, which results in you paying your own way, fighting like hell to get distribution, and maybe 30 people will see it. That was a good idea.

Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women.

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

What I'm primarily responsible for is products. Everything is developed with my personal involvement. Second is client communication. Everything to do with product and consumer is my primary focus. I also deal with everything which relates to investment and partnership. Distribution, finance, administration, I don't do.

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

As we were growing retail, and it was a huge growth phase, it was very important to keep our quality under control. Therefore, it was not just distribution, not just back-office operations, but also the risk-management practices. And these we learned together, supported by technology.

You can't live in the Bronx and survive on just $80,000 or so of income, if you're married and you have three kids at home.

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

I always say if you can't buy it three times over, you can't afford it. Don't drive a Bentley on a Benz income.

Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is, you want it to be seen by an audience. In theory, especially in the independent world, ironically, you do stand a chance of making a bit of money if the film gets distribution.

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.

A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income

Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.

My income started to dry up a couple of years after I had the big success with 'The One and Only.'

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.

When I was 19 or 20 years old, I wasn't making a living wrestling. I needed a full-time income.

I'm giving away 2 percent of my net income every month. I don't think Bill Gates is doing that.

Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.

Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources ... - has been cleverly, cunningly, and consistently scuttled and rendered ineffectual by those castes and that class of people which has a stranglehold on the political process.

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

Digital piracy needs to be addressed. Without content protection, investment in content can't be supported. We need secure distribution. If you (telecommunications equipment and software makers) help us, we will make it easier for you to distribute our content.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

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

In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed.

Investing is important, but get debt-free first. That's what frees up your income so you can win.

There is absolutely no way to increase your income quicker than reading 30 minutes a day

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.

Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.

In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.

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

No one is suggesting societies the world over should implement an expensive basic income system in one stroke.

Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes.

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs. Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Policy and business elites did not speak frankly about the unequal distribution of benefits from trade and failed to adequately accompany market-opening with good domestic policies to equip displaced workers to upskill, adjust, and share in the new opportunities being created.

Carried interest... you're making money on somebody else's capital. It's not on your own. If that's not income, I don't know what is.

By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.

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

The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.

We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

On average, an underserved consumer spends 10% of their disposable income on unnecessary fees and interest rates.

Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges.

I reject the notion that Boston is a city hopelessly divided by neighborhood, income level or political outlook.

In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

Our destination programming allows us to put a stake in the ground and create a showy tweak that is story driven, with products that are inspiring to our customers, and the content doesn't expire at the end of the show but continues to live on in various formats on multiple distribution platforms.

The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.

When the 1929 crash wiped out disposable income, there were not enough consumers to fuel a recovery.

I'm not out to max my income. I think my viewers would call me on that right away if I did.