Wages Quotes - Page 2

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

  David Korten

  Years, Looks, Lasts

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• I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

  Evita Peron

  Eight, Government, Hands

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• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

  Karl Marx

  Division Of Labor, Competition, Together

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

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• Many Americans are feeling, you know, shut out, shut down, the great recession hasn't ended for too many Americans, wages are flat, families are struggling, not enough new jobs, or new businesses are being created, and it's important that we all try to figure out what we're going to do, and that's what I've done my entire life, fighting for a higher minimum wage, or family leave, now paid family leave which I believe in, equal pay for equal work.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Believe, Struggle

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• Profits are better than wages.

  Jim Rohn

  Profit

  Warren G. Bennis, Jim Rohn (2010). “Yes You Can”, p.135, Andrea Michaels

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• But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery - the wage slaves - expect salvation - if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.

  August Spies

  Work, Thinking, Flames

  Address of August Spies. "The Accused the Accusers: Famous Speeches of the Chicago Anarchists in Court", www.chicagohistoryresources.org. 1886.

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• America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal". Book by Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden, 1966.

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• Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Marketing, Motivational Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 19, 2017

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• Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Motivational, Positive, Work

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• 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

  Tasks, Accepted, Made

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.192, Anamchara Books

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• If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Names, Heaven

  Elbert Hubbard (2008). “A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings”, p.56, Penguin

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• The wages of pedantry is pain.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Pain, Pedantry

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• When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

  Mae West

  Money, Remember, Sin

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• 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.

  Henry Ford

  Pay, Envelopes, Shops

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.81, 谷月社

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• Raising wages is one of my top priorities.

  Donald Trump

  Priorities, Top Priorities

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• If a market exists for low-paid work, then we should think about how we can make this type of work more attractive by providing government assistance. Of course, the wage-earner must be able to live off of his wages. We will not allow poverty wages or dumping wages. But the wage earner can receive a combined wage that includes both his actual wages and a government subsidy.

  Angela Merkel

  Thinking, Government, Subsidies

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• 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.

  William Greider

  Retirement, People, Income

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• There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

  David Ricardo

  Business, Way, Finance

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1888). “Works: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”

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• An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Political, Income

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.194, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Two, People, Bears

  Stephen Vizinczey (1990). “An Innocent Millionaire”, p.123, University of Chicago Press

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• Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as equals, to sit down and talk to us about the work we do, how we do it, and what we get paid for it. And I believe that the principles for which we fought in 1934 are still true and still useful. Whether your job is pushing a four-wheeler, or programming a computer, I don't know of any way for working people to win basic economic justice and dignity except by being organized into a solid, democratic union.

  Harry Bridges

  Jobs, Work, Believe

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• Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

  Karl Marx

  Business, Struggle, Determined

  Karl Marx (1964). “Early writings”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

  Laurent Fabius

  Country, Exercise, Technology

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• For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Kings, Home

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.104, Beacon Press

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• Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Jobs, Work, Men

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