Quotes About Wages

Surely love is both work and wages.

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

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission

We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work.

The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.

Minimum wages tends to elicit minimum attention.

Back in the old days, you had to work. If you didn't work, you didn't get paid.

Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

when state and national governments begin to act in effect as agents of the global economy, selling their people for low wages and their people's products for low prices, then the rights and liberties of citizenship must necessarily shrink.

Tied down by so many controls at wages little above the subsistence level, the German workers, like the Roman proletariat, were provided with circuses by their rulers to divert attention from their miserable state. "We had to divert the attention of the masses from material to moral values," Dr. Ley once explained. "It is more important to feed the souls of men than their stomachs.

Salaries for nursing faculty are particularly low when compared to those earned by nurses in hospital that's quotes about salary of nursing.

Managers like Sporck had no game plan for globalization. He'd just as happily have kept building factories in Maine or California had they cost the same. But Asia had millions of peasant farmers looking for factory jobs, keeping wages low and guaranteeing they'd stay low for some time.

He always spoke of himself to me "as an unskilled laborer in the vineyard of the Lord, with regard to outlook as well as wages.

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

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

There is this difference where a man works for himself, or where, when working for an employer, he takes his wages in kind, his wages depend upon the result of his labor. Should that, from any misadventure, prove futile, he gets nothing. When he works for an employer, however, he gets his wages anyhow—they depend upon the performance of the labor, not upon the result of the labor.

If each laborer in performing the labor really creates the fund from which his wages are drawn, then wages cannot be diminished by the increase of laborers, but, on the contrary, as the efficiency of labor manifestly increases with the number of laborers, the more laborers, other things being equal, the higher should wages be.

Why, in spite of increase in productive power, do wages tend to a minimum which will give but a bare living?

But whether the amount of capital ever does limit the productiveness of industry, and thus fix a maximum which wages cannot exceed, it is evident that it is not from any scarcity of capital that the poverty of the masses in civilized countries proceeds. For not only do wages nowhere reach the limit fixed by the productiveness of industry, but wages are relatively the lowest where capital is most abundant.

You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. In brief, for a low wage you substitute unemployment. You do harm all around, with no comparable compensation.