Sam Walton Quotes

I would love to see McDonald's pay more money.

Most of America doesn't pay dishwashers $10.

There are some people who have had no pay rises for a very long time, and, working in highly skilled and highly responsible roles and in the health services and education, they deserve to be properly remunerated.

Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

I was pulling in $80 a week after taxes working in a frozen yogurt store.

It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.

Low pay is a serious problem, and its victims need a genuine solution.

If you're getting $80 a show, then you're not getting paid.

Our company wouldn't exist and wouldn't be around without our warehouse employees and our call center employees. And these employees - not just at Rent the Runway but at tens of thousands of other companies throughout the country - are treated unequally.

We get paid way less than we deserve. We deliver shows and deserve to get paid more. We practically pay to do this. You deserve to get better paid if you sell the fight.

What we have is a pay structure that, on basic wages, is higher than market rate, as a general statement. When you look at other forms of retail, whether they be food or non-food, we pay more. If you look at our health care benefits, we pay a lot more.

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

Walmart isn't your average mom-and-pop operation. It's the largest employer in America. As such, it's the trendsetter for millions of other employers of low-wage workers.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

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

The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

The people who come to work deserve to be paid properly, and there's no excuse. I could understand someone making a small error, but sometimes people make systematic errors, and that's not right.

If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.

My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.

It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.

Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.