Underpaid Quotes - Page 2

• Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.

  Denis Leary

  Fire, America, People

  "Now on DVD: Denis Leary's documentary 'Burn' shows unique dangers Detroit firefighters face" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2013.

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• Donald Trump used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower. He underpaid undocumented workers, and when they complained, he basically said what a lot of employers do: "You complain, I'll get you deported."

  Hillary Clinton

  Towers, Complaining, Undocumented Workers

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• There's a ripple effect in being underpaid for women. Ten thousand women are turned down every day for domestic abuse shelters. Part of domestic abuse is often economic suppression; the male might take your paycheck every week and never give you money or allow you to work because he's too jealous.

  Patricia Arquette

  Jealous, Giving, Abuse

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Beauty, Work, Mean

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• In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. So we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Teacher, Children

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not an underpaid civil servant; he's the ultimate extreme athlete. Red Bull knows how to make space hip.

  Mary Roach

  Athlete, Men, Space

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void”, p.252, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm paid about 20 times more than the average Ryanair employee and I think the gap should be wider. I probably work 50 times harder. I think I'm the most underpaid and underappreciated airline boss in Europe.

  Michael O'Leary

  Thinking, Average, Europe

  "Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary says he's underpaid on £1m a year" by Gwyn Topham, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2012.

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• With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.

  Milton Friedman

  Teacher, Salary, Schedules

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.95, University of Chicago Press

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• I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jobs, Labor Force, Salary

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• I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first, and education was right next to that. There was never any question about whether I was going to college.

  Wendy Williams

  College, People, Next

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

  John Osborne

  Educator

  John Osborne (2014). “Damn You England: Collected Prose”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable.

  Trey Gowdy

  Running, Country, Jobs

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• Thousands of salespeople are pounding the pavements today, tired, discouraged and underpaid. Why? Because they are always thinking only of what they want. They don't realize that neither you nor I want to buy anything. If we did, we would go out and buy it. But both of us are eternally interested in solving our problems. And if salespeople can show us how their services or merchandise will help us solve our problems, they won't need to sell us. We'll buy. And customers like to feel that they are buying - not being sold.

  Dale Carnegie

  Tired, Thinking, Want

  Dale Carnegie, General Press (2016). “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, p.47, GENERAL PRESS

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• Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

  Dean Smith

  Teacher, Jobs, School

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• The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into, for instance, prison systems, underpaid tomato pickers, the gulf oil spill. It's all woven together in a sensuous, oblique way that's not the same as the single-message kind of documentary we're used to, with an "answer" at the end. It's more like an exploration. Sort of like what you do with Birth of a Nation.

  Margaret Atwood

  Oil, Blood, Together

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