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Quotes About Pay

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
~ William Graham Sumner
Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.
~ Thomas Sowell
There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives or at least more balanced lives.
~ Warren Farrell
I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.
~ Celeste Holm
While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.
~ Ginny Brown-Waite
If you claim to represent and speak for the people, and they are forced to pay your salary, you have a duty to experience life as near as possible to the way others live it.
~ Peter Hitchens
How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage?
~ Rick Santelli
Mexico scares me. There's no law, there's wild dogs and people driving their ATVs down the street. I like to know I can walk down the street and not be arrested for something dumb and have to pay to get my way out.
~ Wayne Static
Tis to work and have such pay As just keeps life from day to day In your limbs, as in a cell For the tyrants' use to dwell, … 'Tis to be slave in soul And to hold no strong control Over your own wills, but be All that others make of ye.
~ Noam Chomsky
El trabajo era aburrido y le paga una mierda, y por eso el presidente de la junta local del sindicato de operarios de cines independientes y del sindicato nacional de operadores de cine le estaba haciendo un favor laboral a Tyler Durden dándole una diplomática patada en el culo.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Reimbursement has become the primary mechanism through which the regulation of doctors occurs in the United States.2 To the extent that doctors cannot afford to do things they are not paid to do, and will gladly do more of those things they are paid handsomely to do, the decisions about whether, when, and how much to pay doctors for the various things they do has unwittingly become one of the most pervasive and powerful regulatory mechanisms ever devised.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
Disputes over the crew's composition and pay bedeviled Magellan until the moment of the fleet's departure from Seville.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Magellan's pay came to 50,000 maravedís, and an additional 8,000 maravedís each month.
~ Laurence Bergreen
For a giddy moment Olivia wondered how that young man's pay was entered into the palace housekeeping ledger. His Highness's First Orderly of the Stool? Royal Stepping-stoolie?
~ Celeste Bradley
Minimum wage, minimum effort
~ Graham McNamee
Never take anything you haven't earned; You always end up paying for it one way or another.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
The theatre world is so starved of funds, and that's unfortunately reflected in the pay.
~ Morfydd Clark
All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
~ Frances O'Grady
Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.
~ Kevin O'Leary
It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.
~ Andy Stern
My first paying job was a in a production of Neil LaBute's 'Bash: Latter Day Plays' at the Union Street theater in Borough. I played the 'Medea Redux' character. That was my first job out of drama school. I can't remember how much I got paid. I'm sure it was pennies.
~ Juliet Rylance
We don't have universal health care. Education is so expensive. We have these massive problems, you know? So it makes me really happy to think that somebody could have all the music in the world for free. But at the same time, if you have enough money to pay for it, you should pay for it.
~ Jim James
And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.
~ Louise Slaughter
Women get 77 cents on the dollar that men get for the same job.
~ Penny Pritzker