Top 100 Get Paid Quotes
#1. I have the best job in the whole world because I get paid to do something I love. How many people do you know who can say that?
Sondra Radvanovsky
#2. I never do anything for money; I get paid a lot of money as a by-product.
Alan Dershowitz
#3. You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve
Elon Musk
#4. Society has made it so I have to get paid in order to do basic things like eat and be indoors and not be naked. Once that's happened, morality's bound to get slippery.
Karin Lowachee
#5. The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
David Bailey
#6. I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'
Chris Stapleton
#7. I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.
Denis O'Hare
#8. The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.
Alma Guillermoprieto
#9. You get paid consistent with your ability to solve problems.
Ron Willingham
#10. I don't get paid to be nice. I get paid to be right.
R.L. Griffin
#11. You know, you do it, and you get paid for it, and you have a wonderful time, then you're on to something else.
Eva Marie Saint
#12. I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.
Norman Mailer
#13. I had the traditional print view of TV journalists: Those are pretty people who get paid a lot of money and don't do any work. It turned out I was wrong.
John King
#14. Automate your savings so that you have money taken directly from each paycheck and deposited into a 401(k) or other workplace retirement account. If that's not an option, automatically have money transferred out of checking into savings each time you get paid.
Jean Chatzky
#15. I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
Bruce Sterling
#16. The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it ... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#17. Osama bin Laden has hired 10 look-alikes. Now, how hard up do you have to be before you take that job? There's no way to win! If Osama dies, you don't get paid. If you're found, you get killed.
Jay Leno
#18. I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
Erica Jong
#19. I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.
Hilary Mantel
#20. Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.
Jeff Landry
#21. The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
Reggie Jackson
#22. You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?
Dick Gregory
#23. Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.
Paul Engle
#24. I did a lot of songs that I sold, but then they never came out and I never got paid for it. You learn real fast that the music industry, in the beginning, you're not going to get paid for a while, and then you start getting the accolades.
Ester Dean
#25. I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.
Jennifer Saunders
#26. I think from the time I was a kid I've been an entertainer. I've always had the ability to play characters. When I came to California, I was overwhelmed that you could do this and get paid for it, make a living on it, and be creative within this art form.
Matt Schulze
#27. If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
Hunter S. Thompson
#28. All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.
Edward Rutherfurd
#29. Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.
Kangana Ranaut
#30. I can make it very clear: I get paid if we make good investments. And if we don't, I don't get paid. I have no incentive to sell our companies to Google; the entrepreneurs get to decide that. We are minority shareholders.
Bill Maris
#31. Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.
T. Harv Eker
#32. That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
Jackson Browne
#33. If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.
Moby
#34. I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.
Cameron Diaz
#36. When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid
Horton Foote
#37. If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that's essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually.
Markus Persson
#38. However, to be a coach I think you have to have a lot of patience. You have to understand what they have going on in their lives and it's a very rewarding career but you also need to know that your not going to get paid a ton of money and you have to be patient with people and a good listener.
Robin Farina
#39. People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash
#40. We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.
Tom Watson
#41. If actors are making a little film with me at 2am in Nashville, they're not doing it to get paid. They're doing it because there's something special about the characters, which helps the film become more interesting.
Dito Montiel
#42. I won't even take jobs where you get paid to sit with a group of friends and party. That's never been my vibe.
Taryn Manning
#43. You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Jim Rohn
#44. I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.
Callie Khouri
#45. It's ridiculous to think that you get to play a game you love for a job you get paid for.
Brady Quinn
#46. You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.
Aleksandr Lebed
#47. Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.
Oprah Winfrey
#48. I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.
Josh Lieb
#49. If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
Jack Falahee
#50. The nepotism there is the stuff of legend ... It just seems to be a place where people get paid to sit in a building.
Graham Linehan
#51. I feel incredibly lucky at this moment in my career to get paid to do basically exactly what I always wanted to do. I appreciate that in general. But you know, like any job, a job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.
Nick Kroll
#52. At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.
Andre Previn
#53. If the owner of a franchise is approached and promised good money for his team to lose an irrelevant game, he tells his players to lose the game and they don't care because they get paid huge amounts anyway.
Rashid Latif
#54. Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.
Chico Resch
#55. What you want to do as a living and get paid for, others want to do as a hobby and for free.
Robert W. Bly
#56. My daddy. . . . . used to say, 'Honey, find something you love to do and then figure out a way to get paid for it.' He understood that where your true passion is, there your joy is also. And a joyful life is a truly successful life. Perhaps not by the world's standards, but whose life is it anyway?
Kathie Lee Gifford
#57. Remember this phrase: Get Paid, Get Laid, Lose Weight because those are the three things people will pay for.
James Altucher
#58. The term 'Xiaokang' is used today to refer to a society where people can receive education, get paid through work, have access to medical services and old-age support, have a shelter and more than enough food and clothing, and lead a well-off life.
Li Keqiang
#59. I review books."
"Do you get paid for them?"
I laughed out loud at that. "No, not at all."
Daemon seemed confused by that. "So you review books and you don't get paid if someone buys a book based on your review?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#60. Be like Allan Pearl. Sit next to the class clown and study him. Then grow up, take everything you learned, and get paid to be a real-life clown, unlike whatever unexciting thing the actual high school class clown is doing now.
Mindy Kaling
#62. The truth doesn't get you very far on the streets, or in a group home, or even in high school. That's probably why the idea of Liars, Inc. appealed to me. Everybody lies. You might as well get paid for it.
Paula Stokes
#63. I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better than that?
Jim Edmonds
#64. And you're stuck like a hook through the roof of your mouth
Tired of living for your sick days
Every day makes you sick
Tired of living just get paid
When you're dying to live
but you can't
Dominic Owen Mallary
#65. We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.
Warren Buffett
#66. I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.
David Rees
#67. Why do you want to be a lawyer, Miss Everhart?" "I enjoy screwing people over," she said. "I figure I might as well get paid for it.
Whitney Gracia Williams
#68. Listen to me for one fucking second, okay?"
I also whispered, but only because he was whispering, "Only if you stop using the f-word like you get paid royalties every time you say it."
"I'll fucking use whatever fucking word I want to fucking use whenever I fucking want to.
Penny Reid
#69. Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.
Andrei Codrescu
#70. I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.
Michael Bloomberg
#71. Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
Val Kilmer
#72. We didn't educate women, because the leaders then didn't think they were educable. That changed when a shortage of teachers developed, because men didn't get paid enough to teach school. Then men, who held the positions of power, sent women to teachers' colleges.
John Shelby Spong
#73. I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.
Mathew Baynton
#74. The value you get does not depend on what you have, but how much of it you bring to the market place. You don't get paid when you keep your gifts at home and go to the market empty handed!
Israelmore Ayivor
#76. There are fewer and fewer good jobs where you can get paid merely for showing up. Instead, successful organizations are paying for people who make a difference and are shedding everyone else. Just
Seth Godin
#78. I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.
Dean Ween
#79. Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
Campbell Scott
#80. Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
Barry Ritholtz
#81. I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I shop in a supermarket like everyone else.
Simon Bird
#82. The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.
Tom Peters
#83. Want to get paid for watching daytime soaps? become a therapist!
Paul MacAlindin
#84. A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
Lawrence Lessig
#85. It's nice to be liked, but it's better by far to get paid.
Liz Phair
#86. If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
Bill Gates
#87. I've had a career that is kind of under the radar, but it sure is varied, and I've been so blessed to be able to get paid to do something I love to do.
Bill Paxton
#88. Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.
Patrick Demarchelier
#89. I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
Barbara Windsor
#90. I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.
Jason Isaacs
#91. Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
Elbert Hubbard
#92. Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.
Richard Trumka
#93. Personally I have a great deal of fun doing it, which is an inspiration in itself really. It really allows me to daydream, as in "schooldream" which is daydreaming with ink and get paid for it which is something I don't say to schools when I go in and talk to them.
Jasper Fforde
#94. At least three times a week, I am overwhelmed with a wave of gratitude to New York City for providing me with a life. Not that my life is so great, although I think it's pretty nifty: I don't mine coal; I get paid to write.
David Rakoff
#95. Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.
Joel Osteen
#96. People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.
Chogyam Trungpa
#97. Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future.
Jim Rohn
#98. As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb
#99. When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.
Jennifer Coolidge
#100. I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
Ian Hislop
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