Top 100 Quotes About Wages
#1. The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. In countries where income from labor is most equally distributed, such as the Scandinavian countries between 1970 and 1990, the top 10 percent of earners receive about 20 percent of total wages and the bottom 50 percent about 35 percent.
Thomas Piketty
#3. 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.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#5. The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.
Cesar Chavez
#6. It's a false choice to say we either have job safety or job growth. It's a false choice to suggest that the only way for a business to survive is to make sure workers have low wages and little or no benefits. There are ample models across this country where we've demonstrated the contrary.
Thomas Perez
#7. 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 wages to your own workers.
Aruna Roy
#8. wages are good,...Profits are better.
Jim Rohn
#9. Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people.
Donald Trump
#10. It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#11. A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said, - and they weren't being hypocritical - they said slavery is the foundation of freedom because if you own slaves, you are freer yourself.
Eric Foner
#12. It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.
Edmund Ruffin
#13. Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.
Richard Dawkins
#14. It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.
David Ricardo
#15. Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good.
Lee Scott
#16. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Paula Poundstone
#17. Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.
Daron Malakian
#18. An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.
Robert Kiyosaki
#19. Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
Susan B. Anthony
#20. And wages - we'll see the end of this decline we're having. The median income in America is down 10% in just the last four years. That's got to stop. We've got to start seeing rising wages and job growth.
Mitt Romney
#21. If people I don't care for are attracted to me, I accept it as the wages of beauty.
Banana Yoshimoto
#22. I want to imagine a country where people's wages reflect their hard work, where we have healthcare for everyone, and where every child gets to live up to his or her potential.
Hillary Clinton
#23. 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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#24. Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H.L. Mencken
#25. The battles your enemy wages against you - especially the most acute, consistent ones - possess a personality to them, an intimate knowledge of who you are and the precise pressure points where you can most easily be taken down.
Priscilla Shirer
#26. As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.
Alex Tabarrok
#27. Right-to-work laws do not attract businesses and create jobs, as proponents claim. Rather, they are linked to lower wages, fewer benefits and higher poverty.
Anonymous
#28. Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.
Donna Brazile
#29. If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.
Charles E. Wilson
#30. Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
Robert Reich
#31. When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.
Thomas Perez
#32. It's designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity
Noam Chomsky
#33. While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.
Ed Pastor
#34. I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.
Christopher Love
#35. The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism.
Gore Vidal
#36. When you create an economy where you subsidize corporate profits through a welfare program and food stamps in order to keep wages low in some perverse pursuit of 'competiveness,' than you reap the fruits of the anger that you sow.
Martin O'Malley
#37. When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.
Matt Gonzalez
#38. Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.
Tim Bishop
#39. Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.
Jennifer Granholm
#40. Choosing to work where there is a union and getting the related benefits of higher wages and collective bargaining, but not paying a fair share of the costs of representation, would be freeloading, right?
Cynthia Dill
#42. The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
Jim Hightower
#43. Wages are a direct consequence of estranged labor, and estranged labor is the direct cause of private property.
Karl Marx
#44. Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.
Thomas Carlyle
#45. Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.
Rose Schneiderman
#46. The old equation has changed. Most families no longer save money by keeping wives at home. They lose by not having wives in the workplace, where women have more opportunities than in the past to earn decent wages.
Stephanie Coontz
#47. There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Henry Ford
#48. And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want us in your community, that's your choice, but don't say it's because of wages.
Lee Scott
#49. President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts.
Rosa DeLauro
#50. 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
#51. It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.
Adolf Hitler
#52. People are not doing well financially. I mean, wages are down from 2000. They're down from 2007. 2000 - down. Not going - they're below what they were in 2000. People are hurting. Things aren't going well for them.
Jeff Sessions
#53. What had once been grand houses were divided meanly into many small apartments, let at prices out of all proportion to what wages it was possible to earn. Rooms were sub-let, and sub-let again, so that what constituted a family had long been forgotten.
Sarah Perry
#54. Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor.
John F. Kennedy
#55. What we have done though is consistently looked for additional opportunities to get stuff done. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing wages, creating more jobs, making sure that more people are able to access opportunity, we're gonna seize it.
Barack Obama
#56. The TV and the public pay our wages and they like to see professional golfers mess it up. Missing a green with a chip shot - when do you see that? It's great to see exciting golf like we had last week.
Paul McGinley
#57. If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.
James Sinegal
#58. There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.
Benjamin Harrison
#59. Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.
Pete Seeger
#60. Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before.
Kenneth Rogoff
#61. American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
Andy Stern
#62. One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
Bobby Schilling
#63. The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
David Ricardo
#65. We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American
Calvin Coolidge
#66. 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?
Mark Twain
#67. I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.
Jeff Sessions
#68. I've seen the same promises
more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.
Sherrod Brown
#69. God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished; but it is simply and only a gift to be accepted, and can only be accepted by faith.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#70. To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
Martin Luther
#72. We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#73. Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.
David Rolf
#75. These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.
Bill Moyers
#76. Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.
Michael Moore
#77. To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.
Henry Edward Manning
#78. We can't continue to look on, when there are entire sectors where there are wages that don't provide a secure livelihood.
Matthias Platzeck
#79. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, male nurses ride the "glass escalator"; although they are in the minority, they receive higher wages and faster promotions than women in the same jobs.
Alexandra Robbins
#80. I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.
Peter Bofinger
#81. Those who had the remaining jobs would have to buy the cheapest stuff possible with their drastically reduced wages, and in order for the manufacturers to keep that stuff cheap, it would have to be made by fifteen-year-olds in China.
Michael Moore
#82. In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.
Robert Browning
#83. According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard!
Felipe Esparza
#84. You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute how revenue is paid out across the food chain. Labor costs, particularly farm labor, is a tiny portion of the price we pay at the supermarket.
Anna Lappe
#85. Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.
Karl Marx
#86. Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#87. The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.
William Graham Sumner
#88. Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight,
when I come back
we will go out together,
we will walk out together among,
the ten thousand things,
each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.
Galway Kinnell
#89. When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a cup of coffee in ours, because they see so little of the profits. Oxfam's fair trade campaign helps right this wrong.
Colin Firth
#90. The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.
Ha-Joon Chang
#91. I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
Alice Walker
#92. One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.
William Shakespeare
#93. To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.
Stephen S. Roach
#94. Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.
Abraham Lincoln
#95. The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#96. If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit on their cash and not spend it.
Paul Krugman
#97. I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
Robert Bosch
#98. But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure.
David D. Cole
#99. 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 be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.
Clara Zetkin
#100. I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.
John Webster
