Income Quotes - Page 12

Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income will a household need to put into debt repayment? How large is the down payment? Does the borrower have a job with a stable income? What is the borrower's credit score?

The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national income.

In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

Hillary Clinton, income inequality, it's richest damn woman next to the Kennedy family, and you're trying to tell me she cares about income inequality?

Income from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker.

If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.

Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.

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.

For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.

Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.

Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why human rights must not be ignored but given even greater prominence in times of economic crisis.

One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority.

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

Socialists will often talk as if some form of superbly equalized destitution were preferable to "maldistributed" plenty. A national income that is rapidly growing in absolute terms for practically everyone will be deplored because it is making the rich richer.

One of the worst features of all the plans for sharing wealth and equalizing or guaranteeing incomes is that they lose sight of the conditions and institution s that are necessary to create wealth and income in the first place.

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