Wages Quotes

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs, wages, and well-being come first.

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

Profits are better than wages.

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.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

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

Unpaid work never commands respect.

A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

I think we need equal wages which are living wages.

Our praises are our wages.

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

The wages of sin is alimony.

Surely love is both work and wages.

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

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

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

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

Do what you like to do so well that someone will pay you wages for it.

Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.

This [Gang of Eight bill (S.744)] is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down wages of people unemployed and underemployed right now.

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

I am backing Remain for a very simple reason: it is the best way of protecting jobs, wages and rights for working people.

Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.

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.

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.

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

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

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

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.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

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

But what makes wage slaves? Wages!

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

The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place.

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

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?

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

We can't continue to look on, when there are entire sectors where there are wages that don't provide a secure livelihood.

Understanding is the wages of faith.

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.