Income Source Quotes

Only 18 percent of the income of America’s richest families come from work—hard or otherwise. In America, most wealth does not come from hard work, It comes from wealth.

At the end of the day, a playback singer has to depend on live shows as their source of income.

Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me. I know that my parents who are on Social Security - they've got to continue to receive it. They're dependent on it. It is their primary source of income.

The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day.

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

People who don't want to give a creator money are never going to give a creator money.

All sorts of things can keep one awake. But as you get older - this is what the stroke thing really brought home to me - this thing that I never paid attention to: my brain. I've always been conscious that, of course, after a night of getting stoned, my head would feel foggy; if I got drunk the night before I'd be hungover. But that was the extent of my concern about my brain. And then with the stroke thing, it made me realize, "God! That's my main source of income." So it relates actually to your other question about growing old.

Yes, I do Jiu Jitsu for a living.

I don't depend on 'The Kapil Sharma' Show for my living.

I did 15 shows a week when I lived in New York. I did five shows on a Friday and seven shows on a Saturday. It was everything I did and it was my sole source of income.

I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.

To this day, I don't love my arms. People want more fit arms, but my arms are too fit. But I'm not complaining. They pay my bills.

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

We don't want gambling income. We'll find some other way to finance our state.

Wealth has no source but labor

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.

You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!

When someone asks me, 'What do you do?' under my breath I want to say, 'Ask my f--king bank account what I do,'

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches' for ideas that are often later translated to the larger scale of public commissions.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

You might be a redneck if your primary source of income is the pawn shop.