So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
On the question of opposition, I think there are - when you want to send a signal if you're on the Democratic… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. — Lamar S. Smith Copy Share Image
State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too. — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others. — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
We have a real economic growth problem in America. We are limping along. Wages are flat. And jobs aren’t being created near… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Wages, investments, and home values are the three legs of the economic stool for most Americans. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
The fact that traditionally 'female' jobs are paid less, that women end up working part-time because they're societally pressured into caring roles,… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it,… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens. — Cathy Guisewite Copy Share Image
