Quotes About Business

My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've probably had to go through and raise every menu price now by 50 cents because it took away my profit. I just underestimated what it was going to cost.

If the opponents of an increase in the minimum wage were correct, then every time you fly to Seattle, you've got to bring a bagged lunch because there shouldn't be any restaurants because they should have all have gone out of business as a result of raising the minimum wage.

What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.

Obviously, we want people to be paid a wage that could help make ends meet, but when you increase artificially the cost of labor to do a job, then oftentimes, those jobs will just go away.

I have said, on a number of occasions, that we could have a lower minimum wage or no minimum wage.

Morally bankrupt wage practices and laws cannot hold.

I have serious concerns with the discussion around minimum wage because it drives up costs, and it could harm jobs.

Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage.

I think we've got to be competitive here in Illinois. It's critical we're competitive. We're hurting our economy by having the minimum wage above the national. We've got to move back to the national.

Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.

If I hadn't gotten into the entertainment business, I would be probably making minimum wage still.

We've led the way in the $15 minimum wage.

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

Let me be blunt, employers do have to raise wages if they can't attract enough employees. That's the free market, that's how it works.

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

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.

The government shouldn't be in the business of subsidizing a business by allowing people to be paid starvation wages.

My view is we need the best environment for businesses to grow. That is the best opportunity to ensure wages can lift, not artificially but sustainably.

Trade is very good for the country. It's very good for the GDP. It's good for wages, but it doesn't mean it's always good for every business. So we should have trade assistance, which is about relocation, re-education, and training.

As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

As a retailer, we want everyone out there to earn more money, but then if you're running a business, and we can't make money because the wages are too high, that's a problem.

Hoover had prevented 'an immediate attack upon wages as a basis of maintaining profits,' but the result of wiping out profits and maintaining artificial wage rates was chronic, unprecedented depression.

I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.