Quotes About Overpaid

#1. It's a simple question of supply and demand. But all of us are grossly overpaid. I think it's a ridiculous dispute.

Jim Courier

#2. It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.

Jeremy Lin

#3. The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

John Osborne

#4. What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Woody Allen

#5. The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#6. I kept replaying it. That moment when you let me. Couldn't add and subtract worth a dime. I'm sure I overpaid the man.

C.D. Reiss

#7. Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?

Will Ferrell

#8. Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games
if you count exhibitions
and I'm overpaid!

Johnny Bench

#9. Older British observers complained, "The trouble with you Yanks is that you are overpaid, oversexed, and over here." (To which the Yanks would reply, "The trouble with you Limeys is that you are underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower.")

Stephen E. Ambrose

#10. With respect to teachers' salaries ... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.

Milton Friedman

#11. We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

Adair Turner

#12. At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

Sumner Redstone

#13. I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.

Richard Griffiths

#14. If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

Dick Schaap

#15. We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fifteen.

Joshua Ferris

#16. To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.

Colin Montgomerie

#17. Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.

Dave Checketts

#18. This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

A.P. Herbert

#19. It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid.

Alfred Hitchcock

#20. Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable.

Robert Downey Jr.

#21. Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.

Buzz Osborne

#22. People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.

Bryn Terfel

#23. It's not like I ever wanted to wake up and just be a grossly overpaid, self-loathing, can't-look-in-the-mirror-without-gagging TV writer.

Jerry Stahl

#24. The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.

James Shirley

#25. Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from what it really is - that of an overpaid clerk

Chetan Bhagat

#26. When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician ... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.

Dave Matthews

#27. Iraq may still have a decent outcome ... but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.

Thomas Friedman

#28. You must think I'm trying to charge by the inch, in which case I think you've overpaid.

R.J. Lewis

#29. I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

Roger Moore

#30. I got some good news earlier today before the show. Thanks to Alex Rodriguez, I am no longer the most overpaid disappointment in New York City.

David Letterman

#31. Bob Goodenow will kill me, but if we're going to be realistic about things, probably 75 per cent of the league is overpaid. But we're not paying ourselves. There are people giving it to us and no one is putting a gun to their heads. Something has to be done if we're going to fix this.

Brett Hull