Average Quote by Thomas Piketty

“In 1860, the average price of a male slave of prime working age was roughly $2,000, whereas the average wage of a free farm…

— Thomas Piketty

Paying people a fair wage is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the value of people's contributions to the business. When people are…

— Amy B. Lyman

“With the two sides entrenched, each began a campaign for public sympathy. The focus was wages. How much did Lawrence textile workers really earn?…

— Bruce Watson

“​The average wage in Australia is $78 832, according to the ABS. If you plug that into globalrichlist.com it shows that you're in the top…

— Scott Pape

What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they…

— Thomas Sowell

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“How does paying people more money make you more money? It works like this. The more you pay your workers, the more they spend.…

— Michael Moore

I don't mind paying people more for something if we're getting more. But just to change a deal because you're greedy and you want…

— Vince McMahon

I love paying people to touch me. Nail techs, hair stylists, dermatologists, make-up artists, osteopaths: you name it, I love it.

— Katherine Ryan

Bob Goodenow will kill me, but if we're going to be realistic about things, probably 75 per cent of the league is overpaid. But…

— Brett Hull

There's something fundamentally grubby about the rich paying people to seek out cracks in the system to hide their money.

— Robert Rinder

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

— Milton Friedman