Income Growth Quotes

#1. In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.

Bob Frank

#2. As a broad generalisation, the more people trust each other in a society, the more prosperous that society is, and trust growth seems to precede income growth.

Matt Ridley

#3. The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening as deliberate policy in Europe and the United States. Falling or stagnant prices are simply the result of having less income to spend.

Michael Hudson

#5. Under Obama, income growth has been confined almost entirely to those at the top of the income distribution, continuing a pattern that began under President George W. Bush.

Timothy Noah

#6. The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.

Ha-Joon Chang

#7. I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners, is a recipe for economic growth.

Glenn Hubbard

#8. When there's deflation, it means that although most markets are shrinking and people have less to spend, the 1% that hold the 99% in debt are getting all the growth in wealth and income. Deflation means that income is being transferred to the 1%, that is, to the creditors and property owners.

Michael Hudson

#9. The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth ... But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.

Richard G. Wilkinson

#10. My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth.

Joseph Stiglitz

#11. The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#12. There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest.

Li Keqiang

#13. The impact of climate change is relatively small. The average impact on welfare is equivalent to losing a few per cent of income. That is, the impact of a century worth of climate change is comparable to the impact of one or two years of economic growth.

Richard Tol

#14. The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#15. Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.

Victor Ponta

#16. Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!

Jack Canfield

#17. The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that's taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective.

Jeb Bush

#18. Wealth comes from multiple incomes. Always think of growth and new businesses to create new income streams.

Ehab Atalla

#19. The growth stock theory of investing requires patience, but is less stressful than trading, generally has less risk, and reduces brokerage commissions and income taxes.

Thomas Rowe Price Jr.

#20. The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't think that uncertainty over what the tax rate will be for someone that makes a million dollars a year has that big an impact on the economic growth rate in the country.

Austan Goolsbee

#21. If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.

Maria Bartiromo

#22. Indonesia is a very huge country, geographically and in number of people, and there is still a lot of growth in the income level; It is very easy to assume there is a lot of demand for travel.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

#23. Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?

Simon Kuznets

#24. And wages - we'll see the end of this decline we're having. The median income in America is down 10% in just the last four years. That's got to stop. We've got to start seeing rising wages and job growth.

Mitt Romney

#25. Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth
stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.

Amah Lambert

#26. Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

Vince Cable

#27. If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world's income with 4 percent of the world's people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth.

William J. Clinton

#28. I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.

James MacArthur

#29. The actual growth in a person's life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income.

Anuj

#30. In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift - a striking shift - from production to financialization.

Noam Chomsky

#31. Listen to learn. Learn to earn!

Rob Liano

#32. Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.

John W. Snow

#33. The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

Mark Skousen

#34. Kids from small families grow about an inch taller than those from large families. This is true regardless of income and social class, because a body can't grow well while fighting off nine siblings' cold viruses.

Arianne Cohen

#35. Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare
not only because work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.

Barack Obama

#36. Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

Paul Ryan

#37. The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over the same period.

Arthur Laffer

#38. Operate ahead of time. Plan your finances. Raise income. Reduce expenses. Save more. Invest diligently. Borrow for growth. Be generous.

Snehdeep Fulzule

#39. Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

Henry Wallich