Wages Quotes

349 Wages quotes by 251 unique authors

I live in the same house I purchased in 1971 for $22,500. I think we need to increase the minimum wage and so all my… — Dennis Kucinich
I believe employers should be aware that employees who earn under $10 an hour cannot lead an independent life. But I do not believe that… — Richard Riordan
Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way up the scale.… — Joe Biden
Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was,… — John Lanchester
The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got… — Alistair Darling
Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker. — Karl Marx
The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of the goods to… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the… — Sir John Richard Hicks
All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity. — Elbert Hubbard
When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages. — Richard Whately
It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. — Henry George
Economy: cutting down other people's wages. — J B Morton
The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a… — Henry Ford
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with — Stephen Vizinczey
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and… — Henry Hazlitt
Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is… — Richard M. Nixon
In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the… — Paul Krugman
Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment… — Alex Tabarrok
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself… — Karl Kraus
For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging… — Laurent Fabius
An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job. — Robert Kiyosaki
It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out,… — Langston Hughes
When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin. — Mae West
The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must… — Clara Zetkin
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving.… — Ben Hecht

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