Wage Quotes

457 Wage quotes by 337 unique authors

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply… — Bill Pascrell
Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined.… — Andrew Carnegie
Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result. — Murray Rothbard
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are… — Milton Friedman
Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about… — Nick Hanauer
The GREATEST battle you wage against FAILURE occurs on the INSIDE, not the OUTSIDE. — John C. Maxwell
There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class… — Friedrich Engels
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
One group of people that get a lot of PTSD are soldiers who have been in combat. You know who gets more PTSD, has higher… — Lierre Keith
To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could work full-time and… — Barack Obama
Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and… — Barack Obama
We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to manage the effects… — Marianne Williamson
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official… — Bernie Sanders
If left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.… — Hillary Clinton
[E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today's social and economic difficulties. Blaming business, setting wages, and attempting to run… — Doug Bandow
While much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity-for the average woman worker earns only 60 percent of the average wage… — John F. Kennedy
You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has… — Marcia Wallace
House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do… — Bill Pascrell
Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination. — Olympia Snowe

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