Wage
Definition: A fixed regular payment earned for work or services, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis. Carry on (a war or campaign).
Number of Quotes: 12
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono
Too many companies, especially large ones, are driven more and more narrowly by the need to ensure that investors get good
quarterly returns and to justify executives' high salaries. Too often, this means that they view most employees as costs.
Hillary Clinton
Women do two thirds of the world's work ... Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and
own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
Barber Conable
Not a penny off the pay; not a minute on the day.
A. J. Cook
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work.
Benjamin Disraeli
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for
achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Galbraith
In the not too distant future the notion of the annual pay increase must become as exceptional as it was novel a generation ago.
Geoffrey Howe
Each in his place, by right, not grace,
Shall rule his heritage -
The men who simply do the work
For which they draw the wage.
Rudyard Kipling
Wages should be left to the fair and free competition of the market, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.
David Ricardo
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 to pay.
Alfred Robens
Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the truly great in favour of equality.
George Bernard Shaw
One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
Harold Wilson
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