Quotes About Salary

#1. I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't.

Jack Nicholson

#2. Try saving when your salary is low. So after making more money, you will not be able to do this anywhere

Jack Benny

#3. I've never seen someone work for a salary.

Sophia Amoruso

#4. I've gone from manager to knight in two days. I think I deserve a bump in salary.

Max Gladstone

#5. I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.

Donald Pleasence

#6. Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

Jeb Bush

#7. A QUESTION OF SALARY Santa was filling up an application form for a job. He was not sure as to what to put in the column 'Salary Expected'. After much thought he wrote : 'Yes, please.

Khushwant Singh

#8. If you understand our salary cap, you have to be logical. If Barry Sanders , for instance, came out of retirement, if we were interested we probably couldn't get real interested. So you've got to temper your enthusiasm with the reality of our situation.

Jon Gruden

#9. TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

Jessica Lange

#10. Managers will work for a salary. Entrepreneurs create new businesses. Many people have capital, but instead of making money for business they build houses for rent. It's easy money to collect rental.

John Gokongwei

#11. There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

Evelyn Waugh

#12. There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.

John McCain

#13. A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#14. TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

Norman Lear

#15. The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#16. The bottom line is that we are all inclined to denial when the truth is too costly - whether emotionally, intellectually, or financially. As Upton Sinclair famously observed: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"36

Naomi Klein

#17. When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

Alfred Hitchcock

#18. Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#19. In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

Jerry Brown

#20. A church debt is the devil's salary.

Henry Ward Beecher

#21. I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.

Ann Curry

#22. I have employed someone who earns money for me and does not charge anything .. i call it my corpus or nest egg.
It is a beautiful feeling when your corpus earns money and beats your salary

Manoj Arora

#23. If somebody's got money outside of his salary, it shows up somewhere.

Lee Child

#24. They use a training manual instead of sacred scriptures, with promotion and a high salary as their equivalent of enlightenment and paradise. A new religion for a pragmatic age.

Haruki Murakami

#25. Nothing ever works out when you are at the whims of others. It doesn't matter if you are an entrepreneur or an employee. Once someone is bribing you to do something (a salary is a form of bribery if you are only doing the work for the money and not for the meaning) then you become a prisoner.

James Altucher

#26. Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it.

Bowie Kuhn

#27. President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it.

Sam Ewing

#28. If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.

Jesse Ventura

#29. It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.

KRS-One

#30. The benefits and $174,000 per year salary that we get, we earn. It's not elaborate, it's just a bunch of poppycock that a lot of people have spread around trying to get us to hate our own government and our government representatives.

Hank Johnson

#31. Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

Charles Babbage

#32. The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious.

Robert Menzies

#33. If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you know he's got a big office, a huge salary and is living in a fine home with a lovely wife and swell kids - another career blown to hell.

P. J. O'Rourke

#34. Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

Warren Spahn

#35. When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.

Joyce Banda

#36. On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made.

Clint Eastwood

#37. When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.

Bruce Schneier

#38. When I look at our roster, I'm sure all of you have printed that I'm coming up on 35, and given my situation and my salary structure and all that, yeah, I have to wonder if this team is going to make moves and they haven't.

Antonio Davis

#39. We are trained to be employees, but no one said that we have endure a limited salary that barely keeps pace with inflation.

Carlos Roche

#40. An educated person would know that holding a degree will not make you entitled to a better job nor a better salary than someone who has no degree.

J.B.

#41. Not only deprives workers of the fruits of their labour by paying them 1/200th of the salary that goes to their CEO (the international average as of this writing, not including bonuses and stock options); it deprives workers of the very meaning of labour itself

Susan Neiman

#42. They were the reason that he kept faith with his stars, that reinforced him in his belief that the universe had more in store for him than the mug's game of working for a modest salary until he retired or died,

J.K. Rowling

#43. But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

Orson Scott Card

#44. Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

Charles M. Schwab

#45. Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job.

Dana Goldstein

#46. I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#47. John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company's profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company.

Alex Berenson

#48. When your Book of Life is written, will the chapter on work be an anthology of salary slips?

Gyan Nagpal

#49. Dont struggle for salary.. DO struggle for Success..

Bhadra

#50. I pay other people a generous salary so i can be with you.

Sylvia Day

#51. The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.

Naomi Wolf

#52. Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.

Jerry Buss

#53. Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone's privacy, to destroy someone's sense of self.

Jodie Foster

#54. Sometimes I think, 'Oh, I wish I just had a nice job where you're getting a salary.' Just sometimes.

Temuera Morrison

#55. A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#56. Salary is not life- be it fifty-hundred-thousand or five thousand rupees. Every great man gives the credit of his development to his teacher. What else can bring more happiness for a teacher?

Narendra Modi

#57. The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.

Joe Torre

#58. Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year, Euler left an estate of 170,587 thalers in cash and securities. Nothing is known of Gauss's investment methods.

William Poundstone

#59. Now, I'll tell you what, my friend," said Scrooge, "I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore," he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the Tank again: "and therefore I am about to raise your salary!

Charles Dickens

#60. Are you busy?" the caller would ask. "Yes I'm working." Sitting in my chair, cats nearby, I was reading a great book. That was my job this year, and it was a good one. The salary was nonexistent, but the satisfaction was daily and deep.

Nina Sankovitch

#61. There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary that ultimately is paid by a generation of young people going deeply into debt for their education.

Astra Taylor

#62. Your career has but one goal: To ensure your book of life is more than an anthology of salary slips.

Gyan Nagpal

#63. I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

Simon Cowell

#64. Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.

Curtis Jackson

#65. Clearing her throat, Peabody turned the cube on record. I owe Dallas, Lieutenant Meaniepants Eve, twenty dollars to be paid out of my hard-earned, under-appreciated detective's salary next payday. Peabody, Detective Churchmouse Delia.

J.D. Robb

#66. If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

Nouman Ali Khan

#67. My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?

Dikembe Mutombo

#68. Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

Patrick F. McManus

#69. Jenna Bush was cited for underage drinking in Austin Friday. Her dad warned her that too much partying at school could cost her a good career. At $400,000, he's making the lowest salary of any of his Yale classmates.

Argus Hamilton

#70. If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well isolated with a fixed salary. Judges in this whole thing have come out pretty well - there have been relatively few scandals.

Charlie Munger

#71. You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

#72. When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.

Ben E. King

#73. For my last 15 years at United I had a rolling one-year contract and an agreement that if I was sacked I would be entitled to two years' salary, even if I turned up and started managing Manchester City the day after I was fired. That was more than enough for me.

Alex Ferguson

#74. The word "salary" comes from the salt that was part of Roman soldiers' pay or that they bought with a special allowance.

Anonymous

#75. There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.

Bill Scott

#76. Not cheap-not on his salary. So outfitted, he crossed the parking

Anonymous

#77. If we don't do what we are passionate about, work would be more like a mere wait for the subsequent month's salary.

Abhishek Krishnan

#78. Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.

Felix Dennis

#79. One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

Enos Slaughter

#80. The entertainment business is and always has been about money, and it's about, 'Does that person merit that salary?' The fact is that that the business, in my view, has been somewhat bankrupt for years - only the new media made it viable.

Mike Medavoy

#81. The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.

George Allen

#82. I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.

Nolan Ryan

#83. I do genre films because I like them or because I need the money. I make a star's salary when I do horror because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.

Robert Englund

#84. I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has got some things going for it.

Bruce Dickinson

#85. Don't be afraid of imperilling your health by giving a few extra hours to the company that pays your salary!

Charles M. Schwab

#86. After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

Shirley Jones

#87. I don't talk about my salary.

Howard Stern

#88. I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.

Sophie Hannah

#89. Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

Nicole Kidman

#90. Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

Harold Ramis

#91. Operation undergone voluntarily for the good of Society, not to mention the fact that it carries a bonus amounting to six months' salary;

Aldous Huxley

#92. You'll earn more money doing something you love, rather than just doing something because it pays you a high salary.

Auliq Ice

#93. Her salary as King's Champion was considerable, and Celaena spent
every last copper of it. Shoes, hats, tunics, dresses, jewelry, weapons,
baubles for her hair, and books. Books and books and books. So many
books that Philippa had to bring up another bookcase for her room.

Sarah J. Maas

#94. A salary was not sufficient for me.

P.T. Barnum

#95. People who make growth their goal - instead of a title, position, salary, or other external target - always have a future.

John C. Maxwell

#96. There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 percent salary cut.

Kevin Yoder

#97. I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Roald Dahl

#98. There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us on salary are earning our income?'

Will Rogers

#99. Today, at twenty-five, Travis is the manager of two Starbucks where he oversees forty employees and is responsible for revenues exceeding $2 million per year. His salary is $44,000 and he has a 401(k) and no debt. He's never late to work.

Charles Duhigg

#100. 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