Axes Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Jim Rohn

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than…

— Alfred Marshall

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

— Thomas Pogge

Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.

— Jim Rohn

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

— Henry David Thoreau

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

— Michael Pare

Money is economic power.

— Walter Bagehot

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

The power to regulate the economy is the same thing as the power to distribute favors.

— Jason Brennan

If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment…

— Michael Hudson

All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.

— Edmund Burke

Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.

— Chrystia Freeland