Wages Quotes - Page 21

• Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

  David Ricardo

  Wisdom, Competition, Politics

  1817 Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

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• The caretaker needs to be taken care of, in wages and benefits. Not enough emphasis is put on the importance of these caretakers.

  Chad Urmston

  Taken, Needs, Benefits

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• The TV and the public pay our wages and they like to see professional golfers mess it up. Missing a green with a chip shot - when do you see that? It's great to see exciting golf like we had last week.

  Paul McGinley

  Golf, Missing, Pay

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• If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them.

  Joan Robinson

  Fall, Doe, Raises

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.89, Springer

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• This relationship is the foundation for the argument, made by some trade unionists and labour advocates, that high wages can actually be "good for business". The precedent set by Henry Ford in 1914, who offered workers $5.00 per day (a very high wage at the time) so they could afford to buy the same cars they made, is often invoked.

  Jim Stanford

  Car, Foundation, Argument

  "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.

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• The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

  Tim Powers

  Lad

  Tim Powers (2011). “The Drawing of the Dark”, p.140, Del Rey

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• The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

  Jim Hightower

  Jobs, Issues, Slave

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• It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.

  Langston Hughes

  Jobs, Cutting, Unemployment

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.15, Hill and Wang

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• The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.

  Clara Zetkin

  Two, Competition, Males

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• When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance.

  Ben Hecht

  Money, Blessing, People

  "A child of the century".

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• Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

  Samora Machel

  Reality, Salary, Pay

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• Let me tell you the story about Massachusetts under Governor Romney. It did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation. Wages went down when they were going up in the rest of the country. He left his successor with debt and a deficit, and manufacturing jobs left that state at twice the rate as the rest of the country.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Country, Jobs, Fall

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. June 1, 2012.

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• You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

  Norm Coleman

  Mcdonalds, Minimum Wage, Paid

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• There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.

  Laurent Fabius

  Europe, Competition, Innovation

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• What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Men, Want

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.287, Cambridge University Press

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• The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Country, Latin, America

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• The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.

  Florence Kelley

  Two, Fields, Menace

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• The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Long, Unions, Hours

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• We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity among the working people regardless of creed, color, nationality or politics. These principles are the foundation principles of our organization.

  Peter J. McGuire

  Work, Color, Organization

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• The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers.

  Aruna Roy

  Organization, People, Minimum Wage

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• It is the customer that pays the wages

  Henry Ford

  Pay, Customers

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• We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.

  Paul Keating

  Jobs, Hypocrite, Duplicity

  Campaign Launch Speech in Melbourne, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 14, 1996.

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• Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.

  Leonard Woodcock

  Cost Of Living, Two, Made

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• There are people who would like to get rid of minimum wage. But we have to have it, because if we didn't some people would not get paid money. They would work all week for two loaves of bread and some Spam.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Answers

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.3, Best Books on

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