Average Quote by Thomas Piketty

I have a theory that among the large Western companies (mostly American) the higher an executive is promoted, the more wisdom is lost and…

— Masaaki Imai

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

— Justin Welby

“managers hire great people was a far more lucrative”

— Lou Adler

“Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise…

— Michael Harrington

Basically, I think that most people either make too much money or not enough money. The jobs that are essential and important pay too…

— Michael Dirda

“In fact, the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay has increased from 70 in 1990 to 300 in 2005, and much of…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money.

— Don Ameche

“In reality high profits tend much more to raise the price of (a piece of) work than high wages. (quoting Adam Smith - ch.…

— John Ralston Saul

. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . .

— Buck Rodgers

Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager's goal.

— Brian Tracy

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

— Iris DeMent

There's so much technical and practical skill that goes into everybody's jobs, and wages should reflect that. Massive companies shouldn't be able to just…

— Ayo Edebiri