Quotes about wages

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

— Thomas Carlyle

I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.

— Sam Ervin

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

— Henry Ford

The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.

— Laurence Lee

Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry.

— Mohammed

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

— Ogden Nash

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

— Jim Rohn

Draw your salary before spending it.

— Artemus Ward

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

— Harold Wilson

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

— Stephen Vizinczey