From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other.… — Owen D. Young Copy Share Image
I've had very little negative pushback. I think people in the Senate know that I have believed, for a number of years,… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
I will tell you is the antidote to [Donald] Trump is a very strong progressive agenda that says, yes, I know you're… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
A man becomes a Mahadev, only when he fights for good. A Mahadev is not born from his mother's womb. He is… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
In working on any one problem, such as higher minimum wages, so many other issues come into play, such as some businesses… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We think about our country and the big issues that we face in this country; creating jobs, making sure people can keep… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
The TPP is another corporate-backed agreement that is the latest in a series of trade policies which have cost us millions of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Trump plan is a different plan. It's a you're fired plan. And there's two key elements to it. First, Donald Trump… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed,… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
There are people who would like to get rid of minimum wage. But we have to have it, because if we didn't… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Paying people a fair wage is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the value of people's contributions to the business. When… — Amy B. Lyman Copy Share Image
Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can… — Giuseppe Garibaldi Copy Share Image
The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished… — Laurent Fabius Copy Share Image
Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Inflation was driven by higher labor costs, not higher goods costs. Frankly, I'd love to see a little bit of that. Because… — Douglas R. Oberhelman Copy Share Image
Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins 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
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
The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual,I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
This relationship is the foundation for the argument, made by some trade unionists and labour advocates, that high wages can actually be… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One of the major forces driving the decline in wages and the concentration of wealth at the top is the offshoring of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
No business which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its workers has any right to continue in this… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages… — Laurent Fabius Copy Share Image