Time Quote by Barack Obama

“In fact, the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay has increased from 70 in 1990 to 300 in 2005, and much of…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

“In 1980, the compensation of the average chief executive officer was forty-two times that of the average worker; by the year 2004, the ratio…

— John Bogle

“According to the Institute for Policy Studies (Anderson, Collins, Klinger, Pizzigati, 2011) the ratio between a CEO and an average company salary stood at…

— Bernardo Kliksberg

This is what income inequality means in America, and why the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider. According to…

— Bernie Sanders

CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

— Bernie Sanders

“number of employees who left divided by the average number of employees during that year.”

— Zeynep Ton

Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM…

— Tony Judt

Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter…

— Michel Martin

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours…

— Noam Chomsky

“One answer to that question comes from none other than leading inequality critic Robert Reich. In a 2007 Wall Street Journal column, Reich admitted…

— Don Watkins

If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and…

— Anonymous

People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.

— Warren Farrell