Wages Quotes

349 Wages quotes by 251 unique authors

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
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
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
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
There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.... — David Ricardo
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. — Lamar S. Smith
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
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
Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up. — Benjamin Tucker
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
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
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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