"He that serves well needes not ask his wages."
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"If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself."
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"Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages."
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"It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over."
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"The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded."
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"We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers."
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"With stagnant hourly wages, the only way for working families to get ahead is by working more hours, ... certainly not the path to improving living standards that we'd expect in an economy posting strong productivity gains."
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"The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good."
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