Wages Quotes
349 Wages quotes by 251 unique authors
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We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort…
— Unknown Author
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It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the…
— Unknown Author
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Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in…
— G. Edward Griffin
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American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
— Andy Stern
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There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down....
— David Ricardo
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A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it…
— David Ricardo
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A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no…
— David Ricardo
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I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation…
— Sidney Hillman
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Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't…
— Matt Gonzalez
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When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is…
— Matt Gonzalez
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It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer…
— Naomi Klein
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The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires not only changing…
— Naomi Klein
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Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
— Dana Rohrabacher
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
— Lamar S. Smith
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So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of…
— Paul Krugman
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When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that real incomes have…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
— Benjamin Tucker
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It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest…
— Benjamin Tucker
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All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be…
— Lysander Spooner
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Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians are not wizards,…
— Gary Becker
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