Quotes About Underpaid

#1. I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock.

Terry Teachout

#2. You're lucky, spontaneous, and your guardian angel is overworked and way underpaid." "I know, right? My angel walks into a bar and the other angels are like, 'Oh shit, that's the poor sap that's got Jory Harcourt. Look at him, he started drinking again.

Mary Calmes

#3. Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and higher-ups. Nonetheless, these teachers still show up because there are some who are teachers indeed.

Monica Johnson

#4. Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.

Jane Swisshelm

#5. I was overworked, underpaid, and socially retarded. But

J.A. Konrath

#6. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

Terrell Owens

#7. I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

Dan Gilroy

#8. I love museums more than any other institution the human race has invented. Museum people are always overworked and underpaid, and they all deserve sainthood, every one.

Robert T. Bakker

#9. It is impossible to overestimate how humourless underpaid journalists can be.

David Lagercrantz

#10. I'm Europe's most underpaid and underappreciated boss. I'm paid about 20 times more than the average Ryanair employee and I think the gap should be wider.

Michael O'Leary

#11. Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

Anna Howard Shaw

#12. Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

Dean Smith

#13. Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.

Peter Landesman

#14. Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. The teachers that we actually learn more from are the ones that taught us life lessons more than trigonometry. And they have such a huge responsibility and they're under-appreciated and underpaid. So that's my opinion of teachers.

Justin Timberlake

#16. Huge biceps are an unattractive-uneducated-underpaid man's last attempt to be seen as worthy of dating, or, sleeping with.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#17. Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.

Derek Bok

#18. Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.

Denis Leary

#19. I think I am still underpaid. I want to make as much money as my male counterparts.

Kangana Ranaut

#20. In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

Joe DiMaggio

#21. My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung.

Nick Offerman

#22. Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable.

Trey Gowdy

#23. Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

John Agar

#24. No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

Gloria Steinem

#25. 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

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

John Osborne

#27. Being a common laborer all my life at poor and underpaid jobs, I had worked with more black men, known more black men, drank with more black men, fought with more black men than any theoretical liberal with books jammed between the ears.

Charles Bukowski

#28. If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.

Michael Jordan

#29. I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and as soon as I got properly confident, I developed my own style. After that I never looked back.

Derek Ridgers

#30. I think good teachers are underpaid.

Peter Brimelow

#31. Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.

Jay Leno

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. If we purchase items made by underpaid and abused workers, we participate in their exploitation.

Julie Clawson

#35. The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid.

Julie Rivkin

#36. We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.

Justin Timberlake

#37. NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not an underpaid civil servant; he's the ultimate extreme athlete. Red Bull knows how to make space hip.

Mary Roach

#38. I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first, and education was right next to that. There was never any question about whether I was going to college.

Wendy Williams

#39. When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

Dan Jenkins