Quotes about Wage

KRS-One

It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.

Rutger Bregman

We like to think that people have to work for their money.

Robert Parish

Shoot, I ain't working for free. You can never have enough money.

Herman Melville

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

Gilbert Arenas

There's no such thing as overpaid.

Gray Davis

When people work, they send us a check. When they don't, we send them a check.

Leo XIII

Neither capital can do without labor, nor labor without capital.

Kabir Bedi

I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.

Iain Duncan Smith

People work hard.

Patrick deWitt

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.

Celine Dion

I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.

Daniel Webster

I have paid $120 for the freedom of Paul Jennings; he agrees to work out the same at $8 per month, to be furnished with board, clothes, washing.

Paul Jennings was at the time a slave belonging to James and Dolley Madison. See {617029} and {618968} for Jennings’ descriptions of them. The $120 gives us an indication of how valuable a slave was at the time. Adjusting for inflation, this would be equivalent to hundreds of thousands of dollars in modern terms.

Jeff Rich

No collection without compensation.

James Buchanan

Ten cents a day is adequate pay for a workingman.

Ten cents a day was a very low wage—it was about the equivalent of a meal at a tavern at the time. Workers throughout the country were outraged and give him a derogatory nickname—see Quotation 643585.

Rasheed Wallace

As long as somebody 'CTC,' at the end of the day I'm with them. For all you that don't know what CTC means, that's 'Cut The Check.'

Eva Zeisel

I don't know the difference between working and not working.

Harold Wilson

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

Henry George

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.