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
Lamar S. Smith 
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Leland Stanford 
Robert Bosch 
David Herbert Lawrence 
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In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
Clara Zetkin 
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If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.
Charles E. Wilson
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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 H. Shaw
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Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good.
Lee Scott
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It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.
David Ricardo
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If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.
David Korten
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It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
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Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
Karel Capek
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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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