Quotes About Wages

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.

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.

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

The wages of sin is death!

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.

others paid by the hour are not there yet.

If our American women are going to work to put food on the table and pay for the mortgage, then we better make sure that they get put into jobs that pay well and that pay their worth. That's why I'm such a huge advocate about computing jobs, because those are the jobs.

Confundir o que é bom para os mercados financeiros com o que é bom para os empregos, salários e para a vida das pessoas é um erro fatal em muitas escolhas económicas realizadas por líderes empresariais, legisladores e políticos.

We worked in the sewing shop, making uniforms for a medical company that paid us twelve cents an hour.

As in the past, therefore, eastern Europeans have had to compete with the West on a markedly uneven playing field, lacking local capital and foreign markets and able to export only low-margin foods and raw materials or else industrial and consumer goods kept cheap thanks to low wages and public subsidy.

What contemporary society needs is essentially abstract human relationships, so that even faceless people like me can earn their wages with no interference.

There was no description of the years in town, of supplementing farm income with wages, or of the anxiety engendered by poverty.

Is not 'casual' labour the very secret and safety-valve of a safe and sound labour system generally?...In a complicated and commercial state constant employment at regular wages is impossible; while dole-supported unemployment, at anything like the wages of employment, is demoralizing to begin with and ruinous at its more or less quickly arriving end.

The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Be content with your wages.

The iron law of wages.

Mike Tyson has been given every penny he has coming.

We've got to do more to ensure that people who work full time are not living in poverty and that the massive gap between rich and poor - which is fundamentally un-American, as far as I'm concerned - is somehow dealt with.

Just getting paid for six months out of the year is unacceptable in any kind of job.

I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.