Wage Quotes

“Minimum wage, minimum effort”

— Graham McNamee

“Act your wage.”

— Dave Ramsey

The real minimum wage is zero.

— Thomas Sowell

A low wage business is always insecure.

— Henry Ford

Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.

— Karin Slaughter

“Don’t reduce your impacts to match what you earn.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

We've led the way in the $15 minimum wage.

— Andy Jassy

You can't receive a living wage unless you work.

— Mark Winne

Minimum wage is supposed to be entry level.

— Nicole Malliotakis

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

— Tom Douglas

“Council Approves $15 Minimum Wage”

— Anonymous

“I mun hev' my wage, and I mun goa! I hed aimed to dee wheare I'd sarved fur sixty year;”

— Emily Brontë

6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.

— Russ Carnahan

Millions of Americans do essential work but are not paid a living wage.

— Alex Padilla

I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid.

— Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

From that first wage case in 1958, I had, pretty much, rock star status.

— Bob Hawke

I have campaigned for a higher minimum wage, and more employers should be paying a proper living wage.

— Rachel Reeves

Impressing others is an exhausting and fruitless battle. Don't go broke trying to look rich. Act your wage.

— Ronald Oliver

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not…

— Henry Ford

In the general economy, you get government involved in making market decisions - first of all, they're going to get it wrong.…

— Ron Johnson

“If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I feel strongly about opening up the conversation around the wage gap. It makes a difference how much you get paid, especially…

— Greta Lee

I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create…

— Sal Albanese

Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a…

— Nick Hanauer

Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of…

— Matt Gonzalez

When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in…

— Jackie Speier

Feeling the pressure to find a job or make the wage we earn go as far as we need it to? That's…

— Stacey Dooley

Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for…

— James P. Hoffa

High mandated minimum wages will throw people out of work and onto the welfare rolls in cases where unemployment benefits exist. When…

— Steve Hanke

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family…

— Elizabeth Warren

Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never…

— Mike Rowe

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question…

— John Bates Clark

People will say 'how can you have a plane when your workers are on minimum wage?' I said 'but I don't set…

— Mike Ashley

Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal,…

— Lucy Powell

My dad always said to me that he hoped there would be a wage, so that I could be a footballer as…

— Leah Williamson

We always strive to be the best in the wage package.

— James Sinegal

I have never said I was against raising the minimum wage.

— Dan Donovan

A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.

— Steve Hanke

Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.

— Winnie Byanyima

We will always be a fair wage nation in a low wage region.

— Bill Shorten