Wages Quotes - Page 21

• The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

  Nick Hanauer

  Law, Ideas, Fundamentals

  Source: gawker.com

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• 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.

  Edward Everett

  Education, Army, Liberty

  "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.

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• After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Fun, Work, Men

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not — we will not — travel down that hellish path blindly.

  Barack Obama

  War, Sacrifice, Defense

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state.

  George Gilder

  America, Benefits, Leisure

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• The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

  Tim Powers

  Lad

  Tim Powers (2011). “The Drawing of the Dark”, p.140, Del Rey

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• The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

  Jim Hightower

  Jobs, Issues, Slave

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• It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.

  Langston Hughes

  Jobs, Cutting, Unemployment

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.15, Hill and Wang

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• When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance.

  Ben Hecht

  Money, Blessing, People

  "A child of the century".

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• Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's reputation is based. The gap in pay is so great that it is becoming increasingly difficult for young cooks to pursue their passion at the rate of pay restaurants are able to afford.

  Thomas Keller

  Passion, Cooking, Gaps

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• 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

  Reality, Salary, Pay

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• Let me tell you the story about Massachusetts under Governor Romney. It did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation. Wages went down when they were going up in the rest of the country. He left his successor with debt and a deficit, and manufacturing jobs left that state at twice the rate as the rest of the country.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Country, Jobs, Fall

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. June 1, 2012.

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• 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

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• 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

  Two, Competition, Males

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• Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Country, War, Men

  Guiseppe Guerzoni 'Garibaldi' (1882) vol. 1, p. 331. (The speech was not recorded verbatim.)

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• Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

  A. J. Muste

  Peace, War, Dirty

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• With stagnant hourly wages, the only way for working families to get ahead is by working more hours, ... certainly not the path to improving living standards that we'd expect in an economy posting strong productivity gains.

  Jared Bernstein

  Strong, Way, Gains

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• It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at the bottom end of the scale.

  Jared Bernstein

  Mistake, Thinking, Growth

  "Minimum wage jumps to $5.15". www.cnn.com. September 1, 1997.

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• We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

  Jared Bernstein

  Slumps, Trends, Midst

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Answers

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.3, Best Books on

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• Private property works like circuitry in electronics, or piping in hydraulics. It conveys wages to the owners of labor power, as well as the various forms of nonwage property income to the owners of capital. In itself, it is no more responsible for maldistribution of purchasing power than the science of bookkeeping is responsible for bankruptcy.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Electronics, Politics

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• Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.

  Leonard Woodcock

  Cost Of Living, Two, Made

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• We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.

  Paul Keating

  Jobs, Hypocrite, Duplicity

  Campaign Launch Speech in Melbourne, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 14, 1996.

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• You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

  Norm Coleman

  Mcdonalds, Minimum Wage, Paid

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• There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.

  Laurent Fabius

  Europe, Competition, Innovation

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