Quotes About Wages

No country offered more lucrative conditions than China: low taxes and tariffs, corruptible officials and, most of all, a plentiful low-wage workforce that, for many years, would be unwilling to risk demanding decent salaries or the most basic workplace protections for fear of the most violent reprisals.

Our economy takes endlessly from workers, asking more and more from them in ever-tighter time frames, even as employers offer less and less security and lower wages in return.

there is a close correlation between low wages and high emissions...And why wouldn't there be? The same logic that is willing to work laborers to the bone for pennies a day will burn mountains of dirty coal while spending next to nothing on pollution controls because it's the cheapest way to produce.

A great poet has correctly stated this universal truth through these lines: "I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store. "For Life is a just employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. "I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.

The wages of sin is death!" Many have read this in the Bible, but few have discovered its meaning. Now, and for several years, the entire world has been listening by force, to a sermon which might well be called "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

WITH HIS FIRST WAGES, FERMÍN ROMERO DE TORRES BOUGHT HIMSELF A glamorous hat and a pair of galoshes and insisted on treating me and my father to a dish of bull's tail

We should remember that it's easier to destroy than to build, and it's really easy to destroy something you have no stake in. It was the 10 percent cut in wages that precipitated The Strike. The Bosses reduced their workers' stake in their operations below the minimum necessary for survival, while denying them any legal recourse. That was when the real Atlas shrugged. 

The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.

The issue most on Hoosiers' minds is job creation, job retention, and household income.

Expanding the EITC can get us close to a universal basic minimum income.

The pay in the minor leagues, I think it's terrible, it's disgusting, it's exploitative.

The immediate occasion of this practice was the lowness of wages, which at that time would not allow them to indulge in ale or spirits, and wages rising, it may be thought that this practice would cease; but as I do not readily believe that any man having once tasted the divine luxuries of opium will afterwards descend to the gross and mortal enjoyments of alcohol, I take it for granted, That those eat now who never ate before; And those who always ate, now eat the more.

No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses.

The real minimum wage is zero.

Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages.

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

Big Business wants cheap labor costs.

Villa Marchese ," she murmured, a shiver of excitement running through her. " Bellisima! " But her father glared, first at the villa, then at her. "Indeed," he said coldly. "It's amazing what the wages of sin can buy these days.

I want to be compensated. If I'm working at the post office, and I'm sorting the same mail as the person to the right, and they're making $25 an hour and I'm making $21, I need to know what is this person doing so much better that he's getting $4 more than me. That's just knowing the market and being a smart businessman.

Laboring will earn you a daily wage. The price of labor has a fixed price that is determined by the law of supply and demand. Brains, when marketed through a definite aim, have no fixed price. The sky is the limit in the marketing of specialized talent.

stated this universal truth through these lines: I bargained with Life for a penny,   And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening   When I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer,   He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages,   Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire,   Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life,   Life would have willingly paid.