The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
The TV and the public pay our wages and they like to see professional golfers mess it up. Missing a green with… — Paul McGinley Copy Share Image
The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs. — James Cook Copy Share Image
What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Lesser-skilled workers suffer the entire burden of lower wages but capture only a portion of the benefits from lower-priced offshore goods. — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them;… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
[Hillary] Clinton wants to raise taxes, raise wages and she wants to do things like put caps on drug prices. — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Jobs are pouring out of America; you see what's going on with all of the companies leaving our country, going to Mexico… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude,… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism benefited the masses in a double way - both by greatly increasing the wages of the masses of workers and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Without improvement in the economics of each nation how can there be better wages for it's citizens” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade. — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
Private property works like circuitry in electronics, or piping in hydraulics. It conveys wages to the owners of labor power, as well… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When I started at 9, I was working with plaster. I worked with a florist. It was a little illegal for kids… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly processed and it… — Mo Brooks Copy Share Image
Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image