I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen…

Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This…

— Richard M. Nixon

Choosing to work where there is a union and getting the related benefits of higher wages and collective bargaining, but not paying a fair…

— Cynthia Dill

The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don't create an equal amount…

— Charles Platt

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

— Thomas Perez

When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.

— David Rolf

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

— Andy Stern

Requiring the payment of higher wages will lead to a loss of some jobs and a raising of prices which drives companies to search…

— Philip Kotler

Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's…

— Thomas Keller

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater…

— Sidney Hillman

To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a…

— Rose Schneiderman

In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much…

— Adam McKay

“since wage and benefit savings are not the main part of the cost advantage for the company it could (conceivably) “continue to pass on…

— Ellen Ruppel Shell

In a nutshell, the ability of American companies to compete in world markets depends on creating conditions in which workers can add sufficient value…

— James O'Toole

Exporting firms are more productive and pay higher wages than their domestically focused counterparts, especially in places like Sub-Saharan Africa. If firms manage to…

— Arancha Gonzalez

By reducing the highest business tax rate in the developed world, something that we have shown, right here in New Hampshire, is a huge…

— Chris Sununu