Wages Quotes

349 Wages quotes by 251 unique authors

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
The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath. — Louis D. Brandeis
We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity… — Peter J. McGuire
The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum… — Aruna Roy
Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay. — Samora Machel
Let me tell you the story about Massachusetts under Governor Romney. It did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation. Wages went down… — Stephanie Cutter

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