Got My First Salary Quotes

#1. I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.

John D. Rockefeller

#2. For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

Pink

#3. When I started my first company, I still had a 40-hour a week job. I was working on my company on nights and weekends before I took the plunge and gave up a salary.

Kathryn Minshew

#4. Most of teachers have but one object, viz. to draw their salary. I do not think that a teacher should have no salary. But I think they should earn it first and then think of it.

Sarah Winnemucca

#5. The first law I passed in my cabinet was a law eliminating the double salary for the prime minister and the ministers. I have a salary as member of parliament. I don't want a double salary. So it was a very important decision.

Enrico Letta

#6. I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

Jackie Chan

#7. Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.

Bill Vaughan

#8. I would be the worst biologist in the world!

Lars Mikkelsen

#9. Nothing is more dangerous for society's future than having its young people grow old before their time.

Mal Fletcher

#10. The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.

Kellie Elmore

#11. I'm in love with your honour.
I'm in love with your cheeks.

Bon Iver

#12. There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

Michel De Montaigne

#13. I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#14. Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.

Karen DeCrow

#16. They may hail you like an Angel. They may claim you are the world's prince of princes. They may lift you with praise many kilometers above sea level. They may say you are the best of the bests ... But always remember "you are a human being" with flesh and blood.

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways.

Noam Chomsky

#18. I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

BD Wong

#19. When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.

Peter Lynch

#20. 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.

Jim Carrey