Wages Quotes

349 Wages quotes by 251 unique authors

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others. — Tim Bishop
In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave… — Barney Frank
If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices,… — Charles E. Wilson
Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce… — Charles E. Wilson
A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward… — Charles E. Wilson
No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up… — Charles E. Wilson
My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often… — David Korten
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class… — Albert Bushnell Hart
But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed. — David Ricardo
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state. — David Ricardo
It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to… — Leland Stanford
The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities. — George Miller
There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency… — Benjamin Harrison
If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen. — James Sinegal
To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists… — Mark Helprin
Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to… — Anthony Lewis
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. — Robert Bosch
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal… — Henry Miller
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye… — Bible

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