Wages Quotes

349 Wages quotes by 251 unique authors

Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no… — Owen D. Young
Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but… — Henry Ford
Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent to… — Walter E. Williams
The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place — Ivan Illich
The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others. — Robert Owen
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day — Eduardo Galeano
I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes. — Robert Peel
People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves… — Alan Shearer
What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the… — Polly Adler
Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity. — James Sinegal
Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that. — Stephen F. Lynch
Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen. — Stephen F. Lynch
If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's… — Stephen F. Lynch
When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen. — James Sinegal
Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free… — Thomas Clarkson
Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification… — Hilary of Poitiers
Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private… — Karel Capek
The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame on… — Unknown Author
Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the wages of sin,… — Unknown Author
Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest,… — J C Ryle

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