Wages Quotes

349 Wages quotes by 251 unique authors

A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a… — Max Horkheimer
Our attitude has always been that if you hire good people and provide good wages and good jobs and more than that - if you… — James Sinegal
I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of… — Sam Walton
So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me… — William Ernest Henley
Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they… — John F. Kennedy
An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened… — Henry Ford
Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity. — Jim Hightower
Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be… — William Greider
Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone… — Ezra Taft Benson
The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of distribution… — Irving Fisher
Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the… — Friedrich Engels
Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to… — William C. Bryant
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely… — Henry David Thoreau
Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of more demand. But… — Henry Hazlitt
If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work… — Elbert Hubbard
You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don't… — Henry Ford
Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business. — Henry Ford
There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is… — Henry Ford
How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of… — George Gissing
My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they want. They have… — Michael Parenti

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