Wages Quotes

349 Wages quotes by 251 unique authors

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed". — Ayn Rand
Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger-… — Andy Stern
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors… — Abraham Lincoln
In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and… — Bartholomew Roberts
I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages. — Rabia Basri
Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy… — William Shakespeare
The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at… — Ludwig von Mises
The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and… — Mark Twain
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of… — Charles Caleb Colton
You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment. — Michael Foot
The growth of a nation's productive potential is the central factor in determining its growth in real wages and living standards.... high rates of investment… — Paul Samuelson
Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the… — Abraham Lincoln
Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine… — Samuel Adams
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work. — Thomas Carlyle
It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid… — Carl Sagan
Teddy Kennedy's big new idea is to wheel out his 18th proposal to raise the minimum wage. He's been doing this since wages were paid… — Ann Coulter
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below… — Florence Kelley
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of… — Thomas Carlyle

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