(282 quotes found)
“Of course competitive wages in order to attract the best and the brightest teachers and keep them here.”
Charles Walters
“At this point, real wages are falling [and] profit margins are rising, so the offset to the stupid behavior on the part of the governments is that business profitability is improving, and that's all connected to the euro going down.”
Charles Dumas
“The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.”
Charles Evans Hughes
“There is better confidence in Asia. Corporate profitability is improving, unemployment is falling, wages are rising, interest rates are low, and there's a willingness to buy into assets. People are getting their money out of saving and into assets; otherwise they're competing with inflation.”
Chris Reilly
“Eighty percent of participants pay all their staff above the minimum wage, and many of them are concerned about the flow-on effects of the 25 per cent increase to the minimum wage being promoted by NZ First and the Greens,”
David Lowe
“The purpose of the minimum wage is not to give somebody earning $25 an hour a $2-an-hour raise.”
Chris Cramer
“Rather than address the serious issues of unaffordable health care, poverty wages, crime, and sprawl, Wal-Mart?s latest and greatest public relations stunt is to try to rebuild a fraction of the very communities and small business it has helped destroy.”
Chris Kofinis
“The waiver that was approved provides very limited coverage at a considerable cost to the low-wage workers it seeks to cover.”
Cindy Mann
“Given the fact that Maine has raised its minimum wage each year for the last five years, that our minimum wage is currently $1.35 above the federal minimum wage and that Maine experienced a net loss of 600 jobs in 2005, one would wonder how it could possibly be true that raising the minimum wage again is going to improve our economy.”
David Bowles
“Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.”
Clive Bell
