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Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

As I see it, if the production of a factory is expanding, and workers are satisfied, it's OK for there to be a disparity. The best paid should be about three times more than the worst paid.

Basically, I think that most people either make too much money or not enough money. The jobs that are essential and important pay too little, and those that are essentially managerial pay far too much.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

I don't like gross monetary inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.

A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.