Unsustainable Income Quotes

Lotteries are a tax on ignorance

Lotteries are a tax on the poor.

It's so difficult to make the money we produce at Jimmy John's.

If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage.

My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.

To be frank, my career as an actor was not even taking care of my lifestyle. Doing two odd films a year wasn't making me financially secure.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

If you're getting $80 a show, then you're not getting paid.

I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.

I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.

I did a regional car commercial and an internet potato chip commercial. I was seriously thinking I needed to quit and get a serious job where I can feed myself and it doesn't kill my soul.

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

The tough part is when someone asks you to take a pay cut. I don't think that makes sense for a lot of players.

People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice.