Paycheck Quotes

#1. When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

Don Ward

#2. Rank is a paycheck. Respect is earned. If you find yourself reminding people of your rank, then you are just a paycheck.

Michael A. Wood Jr.

#3. I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

Bela Lugosi

#4. The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.

Howard Tayler

#5. President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Newt Gingrich

#6. Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.

Robert Kiyosaki

#8. I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian coworkers at 30 Rock, without whom Tracy would not have lines to say, clothes to wear, sets to stand on, scene partners to act with, or a printed-out paycheck from accounting to put in his pocket.

Tina Fey

#9. My father thought that if I was to go into the army, at the least I would have a reliable paycheck at the end of each month with which to feed my family. Music is less assured. One could say more dangerous!

Vieux Farka Toure

#10. The three important elements in hockey are: the forecheck, the backcheck and the paycheck.

Gilbert Perreault

#11. I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

John Grisham

#12. I'll tell you what the fair tax does, it empowers the consumer and it lets people have their whole paycheck and it takes the power out of the hands of Congress and puts it in the hands of the consumer. That's power to the people.

Mike Huckabee

#13. An unmarried adult who cannot navigate the welfare system has no choice but to work, but a married working parent is constantly evaluating the relative merits of staying home with the kids versus bringing home that second paycheck.

Philip Greenspun

#14. Deflation is a leakage from this circular flow, to pay banks and the real estate, called the FIRE sector - finance, insurance and real estate. These transfer payments leave less and less of the paycheck to be spent on goods and services, so markets shrink.

Michael Hudson

#15. There's nothing wrong with getting a steady paycheck, unless it interferes with your ability to earn what you're worth. There's the rub. It usually does.

T. Harv Eker

#16. The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#17. I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.

Gregory Meeks

#18. Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Marlon Brando

#19. Where do you get the gall to call the people who died in 9/11 technocrats when you sit around and get a $90,000 paycheck from the government you purport to hate?

Ward Churchill

#20. Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

Macaulay Culkin

#21. Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.

Antonio Munoz Molina

#22. The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

Alex Berenson

#23. It wasn't very satisfying playing the big arenas, but it was good as far as a paycheck. But the sound was terrible, especially in hockey arenas - the sound would go on for 30 seconds after we quit playing.

Alvin Lee

#24. The only thing we need to know is this: they bring home a paycheck.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#25. I define a factory as an organization that has figured it out, a place where people go to do what they're told and earn a paycheck.

Seth Godin

#26. Minimum wage increases. The Nobel Prize economist Milton Friedman has observed that the minimum wage is "one of the most ... anti-black laws on the statute books" because it destroys entry level jobs for second paycheck earners, teens, and other unskilled workers.

David Horowitz

#27. I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck.

Joe Lando

#28. I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck ... maybe I'll play a superhero.

Miles Teller

#29. Two people can be work at the same job, side by side. One person is working just for a paycheck. Another is working to perfect their being. Some people think that the material world will make them happy.

Frederick Lenz

#30. By believing your work is a 'gift,' it radically changes what you create. I think this is a revolutionary idea. It's no longer about client approval or a paycheck, but aspiring to make work that has meaning and purpose in your life and for your audience.

James Victore

#31. I got my first paycheck as a cast member in the Broadway production of 'HAIR' when I was 16 years old.

Vicki Sue Robinson

#32. Can't they comprehend that not ever'thing's done for a paycheck? That sometimes you just make a thing 'cause you wanna see how it'll turn out, 'cause you have a feeling in your gut that it oughta be made?

Tom Robbins

#33. The size of your paycheck shouldn't determine your child's future.

Barack Obama

#34. I was teaching airplane mechanics when I realized it was more fun to make them laugh. I was laid off one more time and I never looked back, although it was nice to have a steady paycheck and benefits.

Alonzo Bodden

#35. Getting a tax refund is nice, but having more money year-round is better. If you get a chunk of change from the IRS, you're giving the government an interest-free loan - not something they, or any bank, would ever give you. Instead, change your withholding so you get a little extra in each paycheck.

Jean Chatzky

#36. There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.

Anna Kendrick

#37. If you can create a career built on passion, your chances for success, fulfillment, and longevity are far greater than if you take any old job simply for the paycheck.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#38. First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

Charles Bukowski

#39. I have to tell you, I live paycheck to paycheck like most Americans. It's very difficult for me to say, 'Hey, I can give up my paycheck,' because the reality is, I have financial obligations that I have to meet on a month-to-month basis that doesn't make it possible for me.

Linda Sanchez

#40. Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down.

Joe Madureira

#41. Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

Oprah Winfrey

#42. I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.

Heather Donahue

#43. My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.

Jim Parsons

#44. I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss - no matter what they tell you.

Joan Rivers

#45. Rather than risk starting their own businesses, most people seek safer environments, preferring job security to freedom and a steady paycheck to greater wealth. Their fear of failing is greater than the joy of freedom.

Robert Kiyosaki

#46. Actors work for many reasons. Sometimes you do it because the material is good. Sometimes you do it because the paycheck is good. We would love to only do things that are art, that are artistic and that satisfy us, but this is our job, as well.

Michael Cudlitz

#47. In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

Tim Cahill

#48. A network marketing business is based upon the leaders pulling people up, while a traditional corporate or government business is based upon only promoting a few and keeping the masses of employees content with a steady paycheck.

Robert Kiyosaki

#49. Let me speak to your boss I said. Six magic words that roil deep in the bowels of anymore collecting a paycheck on a biweekly basis. It's like winking at a leprechaun: he has to give up his pot of gold, and yet no one knows why.

Walter Mosley

#50. Apprenticeships are a particularly effective way to create career pathways with upward mobility and strong earning potential. Because apprentices receive a paycheck, it's a great option for those with families to support, including many veterans.

Thomas Perez

#51. One of the melancholy facts of political life is that your convictions tend to align with your paycheck.

Barton Swaim

#52. Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

Andrew Card

#53. How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

Marco Rubio

#54. When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'

Jill Sobule

#55. I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck.

Alice Englert

#56. A job for your family, a paycheck in your mailbox - they're the ultimate proof that your state is doing things right!

Bobby Jindal

#57. No matter what politicians promise, Social Security reform will not change the fact that your money is taken from your paycheck and sent to Washington, where it will be spent.

Ron Paul

#58. Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.

Cliff Martinez

#59. That's all that it's going to be. God bless them. But you know what? I've got a nice house and a kid in college, and I'll tell you, we cannot handle it. Giving our paycheck away when you still worked and earned it? That's just not going to fly.

Lee Terry

#60. It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.

Adam Kinzinger

#61. All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts and keep submitting until you get an offer. Then you can be crazy, with a paycheck.

MaryJanice Davidson

#62. I have had a 'real' job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.

Robert Kiyosaki

#63. The millennial generation and a growing number of employees are looking for more than just a paycheck. If a nonprofit could make that easy for me, they are doing me a favor. It's not just a one-way value exchange; it is an internal morale building opportunity.

Gerald Chertavian

#64. The older you are when you buy an annuity, the shorter your life expectancy will be - so the greater a monthly paycheck the same sum of money will buy you. When interest rates are higher, the size of the paycheck for the same sum of money will rise also.

Jean Chatzky

#65. Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).

Seth Godin

#66. If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.

Ernie Hudson

#67. In the very few interviews I've made, it doesn't matter how long we've talked to each other, the headline is still just about my paycheck.

PewDiePie

#68. As every American who has ever received a paycheck is aware, the amount of money earned and the amount actually brought home are not the same.

Charles B. Rangel

#69. 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

#70. If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

Noel Coward

#71. I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.

Patsy Kelly

#72. When Lasseter got his next paycheck, it contained a small bonus. "You have to use this to buy a new car," Steve told him. "It has to be safe, and I have to approve it." John and Nancy picked out a Volvo, and Steve approved.

Brent Schlender

#73. I don't prefer much of film over stage ... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

Marisa Tomei

#74. We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.

Lindsey Graham

#75. Never drew a paycheck outside of baseball.

Don Zimmer

#76. The ability to stay calm and focused in the midst of change is what distinguishes great leaders from those just collecting a paycheck.

Todd Stocker

#77. My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'

Patrick Schwarzenegger

#78. You are self employed. You work to pay your bills, build your dreams and create your life, regardless of who signs your paycheck.

Rob Liano

#79. I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.

Deirdre Lovejoy

#80. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

Mitch Albom

#81. Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.

Carlos Alazraqui

#82. Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

Thomas Sowell

#83. I'd like to be a better writer, but I have no dreams to direct or do a screenplay. And I'd love to have a big starring role in a movie because the paycheck would be bigger. That's the only reason I do films.

Henry Rollins

#84. The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.

Shawn Achor

#85. The God I believe in believes in me and won't silence my heart or others based on a paycheck at the end of the day.

Shannon L. Alder

#86. My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.

Gary Shteyngart

#87. WHEN YOU HAVE A PAYCHECK-TO-PAYCHECK MENTALITY, IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE THE POSSIBILITY OF HAVING

Iyanla Vanzant

#88. Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

Cliff Martinez

#89. My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model.

Peter Fenton

#90. 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

#91. Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer.

Tony Robbins

#92. As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.

Manny Montana

#93. In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck.

Virgil Goode

#94. Directors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie, which is for your heart and you don't get paid up front and probably don't make any money on it, but it hopefully goes to Sundance and is more of an art movie, and then you do TV.

Jason Blum

#95. Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Vincent Van Gogh

#96. When he came home with the traditional gift of underwear bought with his first paycheck, she barely looked at it, and coldly shot at him, "What about what you were going to be?

Kyung-Sook Shin

#97. I made very good money and spent all of it every week. I lived paycheck to paycheck ...

Augusten Burroughs

#98. I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.

Jennifer Aniston

#99. I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

Gaby Hoffmann

#100. Jackson doesn't bother to read the scripts anymore. He just checks to make sure he has one loud scene where he gets to shout, then cashes the paycheck.

Samuel L. Jackson