Wage Quotes

Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is The long nights of the grave.

Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, and their business model is going to set the standards for our children unless we do something now. Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

It's not life insurance; it's wage replacement. It's trying to make the injured worker - or their family, in the case of deceased worker - maintain their lifestyle, their level of income.

Anybody who works should get at least a minimum wage. If employers offered minimum wage, Americans would do those jobs. American workers fought long and hard for a decent wage.

We need to develop normal ties so that we won't have to wage war anymore.

Our goal is victory. It's time to wage a decisive battle.

Many small retailers couldn't sustain a higher minimum wage. It would drive some out of business.

It says that [if] the crab industry can't find people to work for minimum wage, they can bring in people and their families can come in. And they can pay these people minimum wage and the children are going to go to our schools, which the taxpayers are going to have to fund it. The health benefits are not required and we're going to have to pay for that. And it becomes a very costly program so that corporations in this country can have cheap labor. We should not have to pay for their cheap labor.

If it is not a problem for employers to pay workers a decent wage, then there should be no problem in using the program.

We've got to put Congress on the hot seat. Congress gave George Bush the authority and money to wage this war. Now they have to hold him accountable.

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

It's unfortunate that a small handful of competitors are using the SPA to wage an anti-Microsoft campaign rather than work on common industry challenges.

But, as ever, with each minimum wage increase comes the predictable wave of protests from business saying that it cannot afford another rise.

It's hard to accuse them of being behind the curve. If anything they're being a bit too rigid. Wage pressure has proved to be modest. The ECB will probably be looking to see slowing in housing credit growth.

If you're making the minimum wage you want it raised. If you're an employer it's going to affect your wage structure. It's always passed along to the consumer, whether people realize that or not.

For employers to maintain a quality workforce, they are going to be required to provide a wage level commensurate with the local environment.

We've offered our hourly-wage earners a health-care plan that's virtually identical to what we've provided to thousands of our salaried staff. It's a plan that gives them five options to choose health coverage that best meets their economic and medical needs.

Our goal was to build a foundation to attract advanced technology jobs with wage rates far exceeding those of the average information technology employer. These are the first projects that are paying an average wage rate that exceeds that of the mining industry.

The purpose of the minimum wage is not to give somebody earning $25 an hour a $2-an-hour raise.

There are people who would like to get rid of minimum wage. But we have to have it, because if we didn't some people would not get paid money. They would work all week for two loaves of bread and some Spam.

How To Kill the Job Culture Before It Kills You: Living a Life of Autonomy in a Wage-Slave Society ... sucking the vitality out of our lives, families and communities.

We cannot ignore the market realities facing Delphi, which is unable to sustain wage and benefit levels above those paid by our U.S.-based competitors.

While the wage and benefit changes are difficult, they are necessary for our business to effectively compete against foreign competition.

McDonald's does not close down and move across the state line when you raise the minimum wage.