Amount Quote by Alfred Marshall

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

— Ferdinand Mount

The worth of a person is not in what they own or how much they make, yet in how much they give without need…

— Nishan Panwar

In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.

— Karl Marx

The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed…

— Jacquetta Hawkes

“My income is in direct proportion to my ability to add massive and measurable levels of value to other human beings." ―Mark Anastasi”

— Erlend Bakke

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

— Thomas Sowell

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.

— Thomas Pogge

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.

— Robert Reich

The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of…

— Thomas Paine

Income is primarily determined by your philosophy, not by the economy

— Jim Rohn

“He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana