... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers. — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Workers should not be prevented from bargaining with the companies that help set their wages, benefits, schedules, and workplace conditions. — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage,… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and… — David Korten Copy Share Image
When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses. — David Rolf Copy Share Image
We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers. — Jared Bernstein Copy Share Image
There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be… — Laurent Fabius Copy Share Image
During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I don't give a damn what queers do, and don't give a damn what Christians do. Just get the hell out of… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
I want to applaud those workers rallying to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. I believe strongly that a great… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Wages for the ninety-nine percent have gone down, steadily, since 2008. They've gone down especially for the bottom twenty-five percent of the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a… — Peter J. McGuire Copy Share Image
When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The size of the U.S. middle class has been shrinking. Wages have been stagnant. We don't have those factory jobs that paid… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The manufacturing corporation, except in comparatively few instances, no longer represents a protecting care, a parental influence, over its operatives. It is… — Harriet Hanson Robinson Copy Share Image
Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in… — Shakira Copy Share Image
I think that people have been looking at 40 years of flat wages. You know, the reality is you've got folks in… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
We should create an America in which it's - we can - Americans have a better chance to progress wages and job… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
Wages will rise, jobs will return, and factories will come rushing, rushing back in to our country. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others. — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
The difference between capitalism and feudalism is that under capitalism, they make money directly through wages, manufacturing, and commerce and under feudalism,… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies.… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I think it depends on what agenda that female president brings. It's not good if that female president brings an agenda which… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
