A fair day's wage for a fair day's work.
— Thomas Carlyle
They pretend to pay us
and we pretend to work.
— Soviet Union worker slogan
Economy: cutting down on other people's wages.
— J. B. Morton
My take home pay won't get me there.
— Workplace graffiti
We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
— Samuel Goldwyn
Nobody thinks they make too much money.
— Charles Osgood
People who work
sitting down get paid more than people who work
— Ogden Nash
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.
— Johh Kenneth Galbraith
We declare war with the wages system, which
demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both,
and enslaves the workingman.
— Wendell Phillips
It is but a truism that labor is most productive
where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is
inefficient labor, the world over.
— Henry George
The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not
created there it cannot get into pay envelopes.
— Henry Ford
No business which depends for existence on paying
less than living wages to its workers has any right to
continue in this country.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
What do they think I am, dumb or something? Why, I
make more money than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!
— Actor Jean Hagen in the movie Singin' in the Rain
(1952, Screenwriters: Betty Comden, Adoph Green)
Remember when $25,000 was a success? Now it's a
— Frank Dane
Just because you earn a decent wage, don't look down
on those who don't. To put things in perspective,
consider what would happen to the public good if you
didn't do your job for 30 days. Next, consider the
consequences if sanitation workers didn't do their jobs
for 30 days. Now, whose
job is more important?
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The wages of sin are unreported.
— Unknown wise person
One man's wage rise is another man's price
— Harorld Wilson