Top 1200 Income Distribution Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I have a day job, which means my family isnt dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.

Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

It's easy to get a theatrical release that shows in one theater for a week. But there's no advertising, and no one sees the movie. It's hard to get a real theatrical release. The distribution of independent films is, to me, extraordinarily frustrating.

You've always got to think about having some fixed income in your portfolio as well as equities.

The smaller the farm, the greater is the need for marketable surplus, so that the family will have cash income to meet their needs.

If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

The great thing about being on a television show is that it usually provides you with fairly steady income so you can go and do things.

The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense merit was that it enabled a large constituency to exert indirect power, and thus made possible the distribution of political responsibility throughout the great states of modern times.

When you're only source of income is a $20 allowance and you rely on a Razor scooter to get around, life's not that serious.

Pay off your mortgage before retirement, and that's one less bill you'll have to worry about when you're on a fixed income.

Cuts in tax rates on individual and company income nearly always produce more revenue, not less.

There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving theoreticians, fact-gatherers, protestors, martyrs for the cause, authors of first- person narratives who change the way we see and evaluate the distribution of harms and benefits.

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact.

Public social services, infrastructural policies, and so on are vital. But a basic income should be part of a package of reforms.

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.

In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.

Diligent accumulation of personal wealth is not inherently ungodly so long as it is complemented by equally diligent distribution of personal wealth.

At 50$ per barrel of oil we shall lose about three trillion rubles of budget income

The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan. We must again invest in the development, manufacturing, deployment, and distribution of energy, but this time green energy.

People try to read a lot into what 'digital' means. It's just another platform. There are very attractive things that happen if you invest in content - movies, TV production, acquired series, specialty genres, digital distribution of our magazines, sports rights.

There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.

The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.

America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy.

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra.

BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages.

Never put your savings in risky investments. Only disposable income should find its way there.

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.

If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.

As we celebrate a culture of giving, however, we must also sharpen the question of how extreme wealth generation happens in the first place. And we must recognize that just societies cannot be realized merely by the willful distribution of surplus wealth.

Let's eliminate the income tax, which is one huge speed bump to long-term economic growth and recovery.

The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.

If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.

If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.

Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.

Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.

Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.

I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.

When you compare individuals, rather than countries, you find that education improves both income and the quality of life.

Health is the one thing we all have in common regardless of race, creed, or income. Everyone should participate in creating the solutions.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.

The biggest income we make is from live performances, without any doubt. That's about a 4-to-1 ratio from anything else.

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.

Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.

Income splitting benefits only fifteen per cent, mostly the wealthiest Canadians, but it's paid for by everyone.

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.