The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department. — Louis A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest. — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Become more valuable to your marketplace at your job. Your job is full of opportunities. Find them! Make more money!” — Carlos Roche Copy Share Image
Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
A core part of the global market is what might be called the 'Nike Economy' - footloose companies that play countries against… — John J. Sweeney Copy Share Image
Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last… — William Feather Copy Share Image
These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do -… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
Germany cannot get out of the euro. What it has to do, therefore, is make the economy more flexible - to eliminate… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our… — Winston Churchill 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
Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I doubt the spread… — Michael Francis Moore Copy Share Image
We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour.… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
[Social legislation] raised the cost of production; and what can be more illogical than to raise the cost of production in the… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job. — Robert Kiyosaki 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
The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
We're not going to allow the temporary foreign worker program to suppress wages for New Brunswickers. — Pierre Poilievre Copy Share Image
I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument. — John Howard 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
You shouldn't be paying massive wages when you've got a stadium that holds 18,000 people. — Harry Redknapp Copy Share Image
Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Real median household incomes in the U.S. were basically the same in 1989 as in 2014. But we are also seeing similar… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
I want to imagine a country where people's wages reflect their hard work, where we have healthcare for everyone, and where every… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed… — Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham Copy Share Image
It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business. — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been… — Daron Malakian Copy Share Image
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