Thomas Sowell On Minimum Wage Quotes & Sayings

A hard life improves the vision. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career. — Nas

The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer. — Thomas Sowell

They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities. — Amos Lee

Door. Fucker hit me with the bedroom door! — Jeaniene Frost

The real minimum wage is zero. — Thomas Sowell

Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker's productivity worth that amount - and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed. — Thomas Sowell

You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.'
What do you mean?' she smiled.
Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable. — W. Somerset Maugham

You have tried to be superior in an ordinary realm. Now you must learn to be ordinary in a superior realm. — Dan Millman

I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door. — David Mackay

We are relational creatures. All humans live in community and most people seek social interaction. In western culture, isolation is seen as one of the most stringent of punishments. Even criminals do not aspire to solitary confinement. — Gary Chapman

Mitt Romney had a horse competing in the Olympics. He didn't win. But next year, he'll be competing in 'Dancing with the Stars.' — David Letterman

Since fortune was dragging its heels, I would lure it out with my hard work. — C.W. Gortner

The whole Universe is on your side. Life is forever biased on the side of healing, on the side of overcoming, on the side of success. When you get yourself centered in the Universal flow you become synchronized with this divine bias for good. — Eric Butterworth

Minimum wage laws appear to give low-income workers something for nothing - and appearances are what count in politics. Realities can be left to others, so long as appearances get votes. — Thomas Sowell

The garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

On Dealing with Bullies "You're going to run into jerk-offs, but remember: It's not the size of the asshole you worry about, it's how much shit comes out of it." On — Justin Halpern

You can realise all your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita