#salaries

They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#dance #happen #immediate #interests #making

In my considered opinion, salary is payment for goods delivered and it must conform to the law of supply and demand. If, therefore, the fixed salary is a violation of this law - as, for instance, when I see two engineers leaving college together and both equally well trained and efficient, and one getting forty thousand while the other only earns two thousand , or when lawyers and hussars, possessing no special qualifications, are appointed directors of banks with huge salaries - I can only conclude that their salaries are not fixed according to the law of supply and demand but simply by personal influence. And this is an abuse important in itself and having a deleterious effect on government service. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#economics #government #salaries #supply-and-demand #tolstoy

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#advances #china #costs #countries #demographic

County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#consolidating #county #duties #government #greatly

Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#also #branch #built #cost #dependent

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#buy #happiness #large #money #pay

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#cut #good #minuscule #our #salaries

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#costs #freeze #give #imagine #industrialists

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. ↗

— James Sinegal

#message #obscene #salaries #send #through