Income
A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.
That which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted.
That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as, a large income.
That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; -- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. See Food. Opposed to output.
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Income Quotations
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde
I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
Warren Buffett
1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
Ron Paul
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Plato
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack Obama
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
Will Rogers
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
e. e. cummings
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Andrew Jackson
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
Brian Tracy
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
H. L. Mencken
And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.
George W. Bush
I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?
Milton Berle
The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
Toni Morrison
Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Thomas Sowell
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
Edward Gibbon
I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word "fair" in connection with income tax policies.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Noel Coward
An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
Fred Allen
In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
George Will
You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.
Miley Cyrus
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
William Feather
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Paul Dirac
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Will Durant
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
Bill Vaughan
No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.
Joe Biden
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Income Translations
income in Danish is indkomst
income in Dutch is inkomen, ontvangst, opbrengst
income in Finnish is korko
income in French is rente, revenu
income in German is Einkommen
income in Italian is reddito
income in Norwegian is inntekt
income in Portuguese is renda
income in Spanish is redito
income in Swedish is inkomst, inkomster
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