Wages Quotes - page 2

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too. (Tim Powers)
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love. View quote
Jacques Maritain
I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment. View quote
Sam Walton
I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument. View quote
John Howard
Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. View quote
Peter Weiss
Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers. View quote
Flora Thompson
My primary mission as President will be to create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages right here in the United States... From my first day in office to my last! Especially in places that for too long have been left out and left behind. View quote
Hillary Clinton
What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same. View quote
Mark Twain
From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a 'disutility'; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice. (E. F. Schumacher)
A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation. View quote
Adam Smith
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Successive governments in the U.K. have worked to create a more flexible labour market, which also meant labour insecurity. They allowed wages to drop and non-wage benefits to shrivel, creating worse inequality than statistics reveal. View quote
Guy Standing
Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it. View quote
James Surowiecki
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized. View quote
Clara Zetkin
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves. View quote
Albert Bushnell Hart
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 rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects. View quote
Alex Tabarrok
Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women. (Anna Howard Shaw)
Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level. View quote
Bill Shorten
Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union. View quote
Charles E. Wilson
If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining. View quote
David Korten
New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages? View quote
Danny Glover