Wages Quotes

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.

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.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place.

What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

We can't continue to look on, when there are entire sectors where there are wages that don't provide a secure livelihood.

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

Understanding is the wages of faith.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

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.

This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.

The wages of sin are an expensive infection.

The wages of Gin is Debt.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

Modern capitalism benefited the masses in a double way - both by greatly increasing the wages of the masses of workers and greatly reducing the real prices they had to pay for what was produced.

Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war.

If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them.

Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.

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.

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.

So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.

What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.

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.

I live in the same house I purchased in 1971 for $22,500. I think we need to increase the minimum wage and so all my neighbors can get an increase in their wages.

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

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

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.

If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!

Your praises will become your wages.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

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.

In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.