#wages

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

#effect #general #money #price #produces

And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want us in your community, that's your choice, but don't say it's because of wages. ↗

— Lee Scott

#am #because #choice #community #discussions

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

#illegal #illegal aliens #illegal immigration #immigration #jobs

Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#economist #effect #factors #growth #however

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#advantageous #both #civilized #come #condition

The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department. ↗

— Louis A. Johnson

#america #campaign #department #guard #must

Since the war I have stressed altogether five main objectives. The true union of Europe; the union of government with science; the power of government to act rapidly and decisively, subject to parliamentary control; the effective leadership of government to solve the economic problem by use of the wage-price mechanism at the two key-points of the modern industrial world; and a clearly defined purpose for a movement of humanity to ever higher forms. ↗

— Oswald Mosley

#labor #wages #leadership

Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work. ↗

— Carlos Roche

#career #employment #hourly-wages #imagination #job

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult? ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#economy #society #wages #wealth #men

Of all men, Christians should work especially hard, giving more than an honest day's work for a day's wage. ↗

— Richard D. Phillips

#manhood #manly #masculine #richard-d-phillips #wages