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“managers hire great people was a far more lucrative”

— Lou Adler

“Most employees don’t really want to be highly-paid; they just want to earn more than their peers, and, more importantly, more than their neighbours.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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

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

“Even the highest compensation is a tiny fraction of the value created by many business and technical innovations. The problem with executive compensation in…

— William W. Lewis

Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between…

— Steven Rattner

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the…

— James Sinegal

The key reason executives are paid so much now is that they appoint the members of the corporate board that determines their compensation and…

— Paul Krugman

As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The…

— Robert Reich

This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top managers and…

— Slavoj Žižek

“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

This is what income inequality means in America, and why the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider. According to…

— Bernie Sanders