Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

Charles Spurgeon

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

William Shakespeare

Your praises will become your wages.

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

David Ricardo

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

Benjamin Harrison

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

Susan B. Anthony

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

Ed Pastor

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Jared Bernstein

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

William Shakespeare

Our praises are our wages.

Bill Shorten

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

James Sinegal

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

John Howard

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

Jim Hightower

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

George Herbert

He that serves well needes not ask his wages.

George Carlin

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

Gary Lineker

You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.

Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before.

Karl Marx

No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

Milton Friedman

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

Jim Rohn

Profits are better than wages.

Jim Rohn

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.

Mark Twain

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?

Ivan Illich

The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place

Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

Henry Ford

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

Thomas B. Macaulay

But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.

Richard Dawkins

Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Tim Powers

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