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Wages Quotes

On what people are actually paid for their work.

These quotes push past 'jobs' to the sharper question of wages — who controls them, who benefits, and why good pay and good productivity aren't opposites. See also value quotes.

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.

Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

Innovation and corporate governance are extremely important to improve the profitability of Japanese companies and encourage them to increase wages, capital spending, and dividends.

Quotes by Shinzo Abe

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

Quotes by Jim Hightower

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

Quotes by James Sinegal

Emotion Quotes

Workers' disillusionment is deepened by the knowledge that, as their average wages grow slowly or stagnate, the very wealthy are growing significantly wealthier.

Quotes by Guy Ryder

People in the precariat rely very heavily on money wages.

Quotes by Guy Standing

I'm more concerned about maximum wages, not minimum wages.

Quotes by Greg Gianforte

When union membership goes down, so do wages.

Quotes by Ed Schultz

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

Quotes by Donna Brazile

Identity Quotes

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

Quotes by David Ricardo

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.

Quotes by Dana Rohrabacher

Nobody ever came to America with a starry-eyed dream of working for starvation wages.

Quotes by Ben Fountain

I think there are a lot of policies that have been unfriendly to workers' wages.

Quotes by Angus Deaton

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are Wages quotes about?
This collection focuses on wages as a distinct issue from employment itself — who sets them, who benefits from raising them, and what fair pay actually looks like.
Why do people search for quotes about wages?
People look for these quotes in discussions of labor, fairness at work, or corporate policy, where wages carry more weight than the simple fact of having a job.
What does the slavery comparison in these quotes mean?
One quote makes a pointed distinction: even slaves had jobs, so the real issue was never employment itself but the wages attached to that work.
Is there a business-focused quote here?
Yes — one quote links raising wages, capital spending, and dividends to better corporate governance and profitability, framing pay as part of a healthy business, not a cost to minimize. See value quotes.
Do these quotes connect wages to morality?
One does directly, arguing that control over jobs and pay amounts to control over people's morals, treating wages as something with ethical weight beyond economics.

One quote goes as far as saying whoever controls wages controls morals, framing pay as a moral issue, not just an economic one. For related themes, browse routine quotes.