Quotes and Sayings About Wages
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As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford.
-- Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest on money through the beneficent influence of competition. Capital will be set free, business will flourish, new enterprises will start, labor will be in demand, and gradually the wages of labor will rise to a level with its product.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.
-- Bill Shorten -
Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
There are people who would like to get rid of minimum wage. But we have to have it, because if we didn't some people would not get paid money. They would work all week for two loaves of bread and some Spam.
-- Chris Rock -
Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.
-- Christina Romer -
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
-- Christopher Lasch -
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 -
Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
-- Dana Rohrabacher -
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 -
If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.
-- David Korten -
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
-- David Ricardo -
A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.
-- David Ricardo -
But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.
-- David Ricardo -
There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down....
-- David Ricardo -
A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.
-- David Ricardo -
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 -
But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
-- David Ricardo -
The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.
-- David Ricardo -
Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.
-- David Ricardo -
This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.
-- Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham -
While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.
-- Ed Pastor -
The wages of sin are an expensive infection.
-- Elvis Costello
