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Your Quotes for 5 January 2006 - Wages

It was on this day in 1914 that Henry Ford announced a dramatic increase in wages and a reduction in the daily work schedule: $5.00 for eight hours. On some long days when everything has gone badly that sounds good to me (particularly in 1914 dollars!), most of us have made progress since then.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
     - Alexander Smith, 1830 - 1867

Modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
     - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1917 - 1963

Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry.
     - Mohammed, 570 - 632

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
     - Robert Bosch

Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.
     - W. Kelly Griffith

Wanted: Young, skinny, wirey fellows not over 18. Must be expert riders willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages $25 per week.
     - Pony Express Advertisement

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