Top Wages Quotes
I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
Robert Bosch
Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
Thomas Sowell
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
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
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx
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Barney Frank 
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The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.
John Bates Clark 
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Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.
Rose Schneiderman
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The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.
Louis A. Johnson
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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
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A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.
David Ricardo
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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Terry Pratchett
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It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work.
Mike Honda
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Paula Poundstone
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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
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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
Rodney Dangerfield
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H. L. MenckenDavid Herbert LawrenceKarl MarxHenry FordRodney DangerfieldKarl KrausThomas SowellBarney FrankDavid KortenLeland StanfordHenry A. WallaceCarroll O'ConnorTim BishopFriedrich August von HayekDavid Ricardo
Lee ScottSusan B. AnthonyKarel CapekAlbert Bushnell HartDana RohrabacherCharles E. WilsonWilliam GreiderJim HightowerTerry PratchettElton GalleglyEvita PeronRobert ReichRose SchneidermanRobert GrossetesteClara Zetkin
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