Wages Quotes

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

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Money

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• Paying people a fair wage is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the value of people's contributions to the business. When people are treated fairly and with respect, they will provide unparalleled levels of support and commitment inside the business, and to clients and customers. Everyone is more successful when people are paid a living wage.

  Amy B. Lyman

  Commitment, Successful, People

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• You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

  Jim Rohn

  Funny, Motivational, Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 09, 2017

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• Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Needs, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.270, Random House

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• In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mean, Simple

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, June 16, 1933.

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• How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Leader, May

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• Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

  Henry Ford

  Charity, Kind

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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• Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  War, Kissing, Animal

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Henry Ford

  Business, Quality Goods, Cost

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• What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

  Mark Twain

  Use, Trouble, Huckleberry

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 16 (1884)

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• No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mean, Labor Day

  Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, June 16, 1933.

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• A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fairs

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.273, Lulu.com

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• They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

  Charles Bukowski

  Alive, Pay, Back To Work

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• We have a real economic growth problem in America. We are limping along. Wages are flat. And jobs aren’t being created near to the extent that they could and should be. So we think regulatory relief is very, very important.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  "Speaker Ryan's "strange bedfellows" partnership with Trump". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. December 4, 2016.

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• Our praises are our wages.

  William Shakespeare

  Praise

  William Shakespeare (1866). “A Treasury of Thought from Shakespeare: the choice sayings of his principal characters analytically and alphabetically arranged”, p.290

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• When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race to the bottom" simply in terms of wages. Capitalism supposedly looks for labor wherever labor is cheapest. This story is half wrong. A kind of cultural selection is also at work, so that jobs leave high-wage countries like the United States and Germany, but migrate to low-wage economies with skilled, sometimes overqualified workers.

  Richard Sennett

  Country, Jobs, Writing

  Richard Sennett (2007). “The Culture of the New Capitalism”, p.87, Yale University Press

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• Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Men, Doing Me, Half

  Anna Howard Shaw (2017). “THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA”, p.94, e-artnow

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• Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

  Jim Hightower

  Management, Increase, Produce

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• What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Rights, People, Way

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• From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Sacrifice, Views, Comfort

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

  Robert Peel

  Political, Economy, Authority

  Sir Robert Peel (1853). “The speeches of the late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, bart: delivered in the House of Commons”, p.601

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• We can't continue to look on, when there are entire sectors where there are wages that don't provide a secure livelihood.

  Matthias Platzeck

  Looks, Secure, Livelihood

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

  Harold Wilson

  Money, Men, Political

  Harold Wilson (1971). “A personal record: the Labour Government, 1964-1970”

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• Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

  James Sinegal

  Opposition, Productivity

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• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  H. L. Mencken

  Humorous, Average, America

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