Stan Van Gundy Quotes

There is a responsibility on all companies to look at the quantum of pay and the relationship between the top and the bottom.

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.

And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we had to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.

Why would I accept to earn less money to play for Barcelona? Why are players the ones supposed to sacrifice themselves?

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

You want income equality? Everybody can have an equal mediocre salary. That’s what we can afford. Or do you want the opportunity for greatness.

There is nothing to arbitrate. Workers have nothing to do with the amount of wages they shall receive. This is solely the business of the company.

The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist - like tomorrow - remember this: I don't believe that government should take over the grocery store down the street or control the means of production. But I believe that the middle class and the working families who produce the wealth of America deserve a fair deal.

It's wrong that so many hardworking people - people working full-time, or even multiple jobs - need public assistance just to survive.

We must use every tool at our disposal to lift the living standards of low-wage employees.

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

All my life, I've been lucky to work in social justice, starting as a labor organizer working with low-wage working women.

American workers deserve a raise. I fully support the push for $15 an hour and a union. We also must raise wages for low and middle income families.

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

I make more money in a week than my father made in a year.

I stand with the working-class citizens.

We have an economy that's really geared toward rewarding the investor class. What are we doing to make sure that people who want to have a middle-class life are able to keep up?

Economic mobility will fix income inequality.

One of the biggest disagreements between Sen. Hagan and I - I don't believe we should be building an economy that's founded on making ends meet on minimum wage. It's impossible; it's a stepping stone.

What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.

On 'The Apprentice,' I'm 100 per cent certain I'm paid the same as Claude Littner. I insisted on equality when I negotiated my contract. I would not have allowed anything else.

To improve the standard of living for working folks, we have to raise the minimum wage and empower workers to fight for their interests in an economic and political system that's stacked against them.

No one wants to work for little money; otherwise, they would be living on the streets.