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. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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