Sustainable Income Quotes

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

You can't work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn't work. Crock pot mentality always defeats microwave mentality!

I want to make money but not if it involves exploitation.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living.

It's important for me as an actor to be able to make a living.

Never go into debt to become a writer. Always find other ways to support yourself so you can do the work you truly love for the right reasons. Never ask your art to support you. If you ask your art to support you it will either end up comprised or you'll be disappointed with it. It's a lot to ask of creativity for it to provide for you financially. Find a scrappy way to get by and then do the work you love for the reasons you love.

I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.

You can make money without doing evil.

There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!

I think we need equal wages which are living wages.

I only made x amount of albums in 20 years and to still be living comfortably. A lot of people and friends look at me and be like yo Ra how do you do it? You don't go on tour every year and you don't make an album every year, you chill with your family and watch TV. Everyone else is out on tour getting that money. But I managed to do my thing right with the help of my accountant and I'm still comfortable.

We have to make a living and you can't do that playing bluegrass.

Sometimes people start making a change with without making sure the first the first source of income sticks.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

We can't just live as rentiers off the oil fund.

There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I'm a vagabond and a tramp.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.

There is no sure-fire way to get rich quickly. In fact, the pursuit of that usually leads to ruin.

I have a growing resume, but it's because I'm very selective. There are a lot of actors in my position that are like me: they have an opportunity to make a lot of money early in their career, and they do that, and after that, there's nothing to sustain that. There's no art or interest in your craft from the people that want to see you.

There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.

Our people want jobs. They don't want a safety net as a way of life.

I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.