Quotes tagged ‘Wages’

“Mary Poppins: [reading the advertisement] Now about my wages; the reference here is very obscure. Mr. Banks: [dazed] Very obscure. Mary Poppins: We must be clear on that point, mustn't we? Mr. Banks: Yes, we must indeed. Mary Poppins: I shall require every second Tuesday off. Mr. Banks: Every Tuesda…”

— Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi, Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews, imdb.com

“My grandfather used to work for your grandfather. Of course the rates have gone up.”

— Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, Igor, Marty Feldman, imdb.com

“So: Share your salary info. with your coworkers. Your employers are not allowed to prevent you from talking about pay. I know it's uncomfortable, but honest discussion around compensation empowers workers, especially underrepresented ones. Demand fair pay for your work.”

— Anil Dash, twitter.com

“Labor is like any other commodity in the market — increase the demand for it and you increase the price of it. Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.”

— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikisource.org

“This is the trickle down lie: that if you help big business, this will create better jobs & wages. NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER THAT THIS IS TRUE!”

— Marianne Williamson, twitter.com

“In an hour a sex worker in Medellín, Colombia can make the equivalent of a month’s minimum wage in Venezuela”

— The Economist, twitter.com

“A new analysis of 17 years of data shows that not only are robots taking jobs away from low-skilled workers, but the move to automation is also lowering wages for existing jobs.”

— Patrick Caughill, futurism.com

“Those who spend their days sweating at their job should not have to sweat about their lives at night.”

— Donald Trump, amazon.com

“I’m very concerned about the 46.5 million people living in poverty, and the great majority of middle-class Americans who can barely afford their homes (or have lost them). I am very concerned for the people who can’t pay for the education of their children. In short, I am concerned for the people wh…”

— Donald Trump, amazon.com

“Third-world countries have substantially lower production costs. They have lower overhead and pay their workers a lot less. As a businessman, I have an obligation to all of my employees and to consumers and stockholders to produce the best product at the lowest possible price.”

— Donald Trump, amazon.com