Quotes with wages

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  • William Shakespeare Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Ford 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
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Anna H. Shaw 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.
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart 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.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Begum Aga Khan If Western firms pay developing countries' suppliers' starvation wages in order to feed the West's ever increasing consumer demand, can we call that 'partnership'?
    International Business and Leadership Symposium address
    Begum Aga Khan
    French Egyptian artist and last wife of Sultan Aga Khan III (1906 - 2000)
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  • Barney Frank In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Henry Ford It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Edwin H. Stuart Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
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  • Bobby Schilling One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
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  • Terry Pratchett Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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  • Bill Shorten Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • Martin Luther Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Paula Poundstone The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
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  • 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.
    State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bill Dedman Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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