Income Uncertainty Quotes

Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.

I am trying to make sure that I don't spend on ridiculous things, so that after all this YouTube thing goes, I'm not left there, like, 'Uh oh, I have nothing.'

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

I don't get holiday, I'm self-employed. That's a really big risk for anyone in telly.

I'm only as rich as my next film.

This is the profession I chose, and you really learn to save your money because you never know how it's going to go, but you still want to get out there and work.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

I'm happy to work when I've worked, and you've got to take the hard times with the good times. But there are times where I'm not as financially set as one might assume. So you have concerns about, 'Wow, I have this level of notoriety and... I better get a job.'

People in the precariat rely very heavily on money wages.

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

I still have to work paycheck to paycheck. Being in show business doesn't indicate that you're a 'success,' in my opinion.

You don't lock into a ten-year family budget. You take it a year at a time - maybe even six months at a time. And then if the income really comes in the way you hope it does, then you can make some of those expenditures that you've been waiting to make. We think that same principle should apply to the national family we call America.

Sometimes I think, 'Oh, I wish I just had a nice job where you're getting a salary.' Just sometimes.

As everyone knows, tips constitute the bulk of a waiter's or waitress's income. But they are also optional, at least in theory. Does it really seem like a good idea to make someone's salary so susceptible to customers' whims on a given day - or whether any customers happen to show up at all?

At 40 years of age, when you realize your bank balance will not see you through the years ahead, then my acting talent comes handy.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

I'm very aware of my spending, but I'm not very aware of my income. There are certain times when I speak to my accountant, or something will pop up, and I'll be like 'oh' but it's not really a frontrunner in my head.

If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets.

In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.

There were days when I was on the last $10 in my account, and I was freaking out about paying rent or buying groceries. Then you book a commercial, and you're good for another three months.

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.

In 2012, when I left MTV, irregular income started.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. ... When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. ... People have told me songs I've written have changed their life. That's remarkable. That keeps your faith.