{"quotes":[{"text":"The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.","author":"David Ricardo","tags":["fall","rise","wages "],"id":194,"author_id":"David+Ricardo"},{"text":"It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor  the world over.","author":"Henry George","tags":["wages"],"id":5122,"author_id":"Henry+George"},{"text":"Don’t reduce your impacts to match what you earn.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["earn","food-for-thought","impact","impacts","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","salary","wage","wages"],"id":7805,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["annual","annually","economics","economy","employee","employees","employer","employers","employment","envious","envy","income","jealous","jealousy","job","jobs","passive","passive-income","payday","salary","unemployment","wage","wages","work"],"id":40462,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","broke","clothes","clothing","deep","dictum","dictums","dine","dinner","employ","employee","employees","employer","employers","employment","epigram","epigrams","fast","food","gnome","gnomes","humor","humour","hunger","hungry","insightful","job","jobs","loan","loans","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","payday","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","salaries","salary","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","starve","supper","sustenance","thought-provoking","thoughtful","transparency","transparent","wage","wages","work","worker","workers"],"id":47909,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"In another thirty to fifty years, the demand for cheap labor will have produced even more machines over the employment of actual humans. And in that time frame, humans will have lost their voice, their power, all freedoms, and all worth. It is inevitable that machines will one day become the ultimate enemies of mankind. We are not evolving or progressing with our technology, only regressing. Technology is our friend today, but will be our enemy in the future.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["cheap-labor","computers","digital-age","employment","enemies","evolution","evolving","friend","future","humanity","humans","humantiy","labor","machine","machines","man","mankind","past","progressing","progression","regressing","regression","suzy-kassem","technology","wages","war","work","workforce","working"],"id":53874,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.","author":"Henry Ford","tags":["customer","wages","handle "],"id":86949,"author_id":"Henry+Ford"},{"text":"I bargained with Life for a penny,And Life would pay no more, However I begged at eveningWhen I counted my scanty store;For Life is just an employer,He gives you what you ask,But once you have set the wages,Why, you must bear the task.I worked for a menial's hire,Only to learn, dismayed,That any wage I had asked of Life,Life would have paid.","author":"Jessie B. Rittenhouse","tags":["ageing","hire","learning","life","philosophy","poem","poetry","poets","wages","wealth"],"id":109575,"author_id":"Jessie+B.+Rittenhouse"},{"text":"If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","advice","advices","advisor","advisors","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","bank","bank-statement","bank-statements","banks","bombast","bombastic","clothes","clothes-make-the-man","clothes-maketh-the-man","clothing","deep","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","financial-advice","financial-advices","financial-advisor","financial-advisors","financial-freedom","funny","gnome","gnomes","humor","humorous","humour","impress","impressed","impression","income","insightful","invest","investment","investments","jargon","job","job-title","job-titles","jobs","language","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","money","passive","passive-income","philosopher","policies","policy","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","rich","riches","salaries","salary","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","share","shareholder","shareholders","shareholding","shares","south-africa","south-african","suit","suits","tailor","tailor-made","tailored-suit","tailored-suits","tailors","thought-provoking","thoughtful","tuxedo","wage","wages","wealth","wealthy"],"id":122534,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"My men are my money.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","associates","business","corporate","employee","employee-engagement","employee-management","employees","hr","human","human-resources","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","job","managment","men","money","money","motivation","motivational","motivational","people","philosophy","salary","wages","wisdom","wisdom","workers"],"id":127169,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}