Wages Quotes - Page 14

• Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.

  Henry Ford

  Work, Doe, Use

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• Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road.

  Owen D. Young

  Achievement, Salvation, Profit

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• Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent to land. In order to earn profits in free markets, entrepreneurs must identify and satisfy human wants and do so in a way that economizes on society's scarce resources.

  Walter E. Williams

  Order, Land, Entrepreneur

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.351, Hoover Institution Press

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• The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place.

  Ivan Illich

  Consumption, Household

  "Shadow work".

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• The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

  Robert Owen

  Humanity, Individual, Stage

  Robert Owen (1841). “A development of the principles and plans on which to establish self-supporting home colonies: as a most secure and profitable investment for capital, and an effectual means permanently to remove the causes of ignorance, poverty, and crime”, p.7

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• The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day

  Eduardo Galeano

  Coffee, Law, Fiction

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.98, NYU Press

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• People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves and live life to the full. They work all week, pick their wages up at the end of the week and they spend it over a weekend by having a good time and watching the football. That's our life.

  Alan Shearer

  Football, Live Life, Weekend

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• What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

  Polly Adler

  Father, Real, Cities

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.9, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Real, Believe, Average

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• Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Jobs, Real, Mexico

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• If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Average, Goal, Typical

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• Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.

  James Sinegal

  Good Business, Employee, Wells

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• When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

  James Sinegal

  Jobs, Careers, People

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• Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.

  Thomas Clarkson

  Men, Done, Slave

  Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.63, Broadview Press

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• Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  God, Faith, Religious

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• Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

  Donna Brazile

  Office, African American, Income

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• [E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today's social and economic difficulties. Blaming business, setting wages, and attempting to run the economy by decree from Washington only exacerbates the problems. Consider the minimum wage. It seems so simple: Tell business to pay its workers more. But a hike in the minimum wage is essentially a tax, punishing precisely those companies that hire workers with the least skills.

  Doug Bandow

  Running, Simple, Government

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• The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as much as on the front. Minds must be kept loyal and at the right pitch of hate, so that successive drafts of fighters are accepted without murmurings. Letters and newspapers must be censored while the propaganda mill grinds on. As for decisions of strategy and overall command, they must please many masters: dissenters in the cabinet, the heads of the allied states and public opinion. Hence failures must be disguised or concealed.

  Jacques Barzun

  Hate, Tyrants, People

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• New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?

  Danny Glover

  Jobs, New Orleans, Cities

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• The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages, and against the class 'techniques' for increasing productivity... but also around the question of the technical-social division of labor that prevails om enterprises, and against bourgeois ideology and repression.

  Louis Althusser

  Struggle, Class, Division Of Labor

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• But what makes wage slaves? Wages!

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Slave, Wage Slaves

  "Fictional character: Hammer". "The Cocoanuts", www.imdb.com. 1929.

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• Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods, engage in local development and live together in peace. This happens only when work is decent - environmentally sound and productive - provides fair wages, and is underpinned by rights

  Sharan Burrow

  Country, Jobs, Rights

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• Modern capitalism benefited the masses in a double way - both by greatly increasing the wages of the masses of workers and greatly reducing the real prices they had to pay for what was produced.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Real, Pay, Way

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

  David Ricardo

  Business, Farming, Economics

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.68

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• But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.

  David Ricardo

  Fall, Luxury, Increase

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.146

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