A Quote by David Ricardo

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

David Ricardo

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David Ricardo
British - Economist
April 18, 1772 - September 11, 1823

In a free market, businesses compete for customers by keeping prices down and for labor by keeping wages up.

Peter Schiff

Workers' wages are not keeping up with inflation. Their wages are not on pace with the amount of work that they do. We work harder and longer in America and still people's wages are not keeping up with that.

Nina Turner

I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go... The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful.

Jerrod Carmichael

Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less; we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate.

Yoko Ono

Young voters may be growing up in an era of increased global connection, cooperation and commerce. But they're very open to politicians who tell them it is these very things that are keeping elites in power and keeping their generation down.

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.

Lenny Kravitz

Are you keeping anything else from me?” “I’m keeping a lot of things from you.” “Like?” “Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.

Kate Brown

People are awake about 16 hours a day, so to devote 30 minutes to keeping your weight down, keeping your body healthy, is not a lot of time.

Denise Austin

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

The whole idea of juicing is good if you are trying to diet and use it in limited basis. I use juice drinks only once a week. I use emulsified drinks because in emulsification you are keeping everything. You are keeping the pulp, you are keeping the skin with all of the phytonutrients.

Montel Williams

That, to me, is what comedy is all about: keeping fresh and keeping current and changing with the times.

Norm Crosby

Such is the endless dilemma of dialect. Not every reader will ever agree with the way that I handle it, no matter how hard I work to keep everything readable. But again it's that balance I have to maintain between keeping it easy and keeping it real, and I know that I'll never please everyone.