Quote by Adam Smith

“wages of labour, the profits of stock, or the rent of land.”

— Adam Smith

“Every dollar released from taxation, that is spent or invested, will create a new job and a new salary.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“There are many things which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited”

— Charles Dickens

“Ultimately, what economics attempts to measure, underneath money, is the totality of all that human beings make and do for each other.”

— Charles Eisenstein

“Wages are a direct consequence of estranged labor, and estranged labor is the direct cause of private property.”

— Karl Marx

“The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence to them.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Broadly speaking, there are only two ways human beings can make an income: ...by contributing to society or they can extract an income from…

— Martin Adams

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

— Ambrose Bierce

“It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.”

— E.L. Doctorow

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

— David Ricardo

“When you nationalize the expenditures but privatize the revenue, everything is profit.”

— Tanya Thompson

“The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the…

— Karl Marx