Wages Quotes - Page 5

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

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished; but it is simply and only a gift to be accepted, and can only be accepted by faith.

When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.

Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

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

What we must seek is a plan by which the men will receive high wages when the employers are receiving high prices for the product.

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

When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000 but only 5,000,000 receive their wages.

We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford.

What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.

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.

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

If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit on their cash and not spend it.

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.

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

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

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.

You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don't mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don't leave anything over.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

The wages of Gin is Debt.

The wages of sin are an expensive infection.