Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism."
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Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"Never depend on a single source of income."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"A heavy progressive or graduated income tax."
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"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"
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"I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income."
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"Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women."
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"To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis."
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"Income seldom exceeds personal development."
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"We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning."
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"No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income."
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"Men do not realize how great an income thrift is."
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"The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income."
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"If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers."
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"Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital."
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"I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax."
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"If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business."
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"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune... Income seldom exceeds personal development."
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"An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages."
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"May you have the income of a Republican and the sex life of a Democrat!"
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"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."
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"Your income right now is a result of your standards, it is not the industry, it is not the economy."
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"It's natural that you'd have more brains going into money management. There are so many huge incomes in money management and investment banking - it's like ants to sugar. There are huge incentives for a man to take up money management as opposed to, say, physics, and it's a lot easier."
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"For too many, to work means having less income."
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