Salary quotes
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We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I don't clean, I don't make the bed. I spend my salary. I worry a lot. I just don't worry about socks on the floor.
-- Amanda Peet -
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
-- Aristophanes -
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.
-- Arundhati Roy -
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Salaries are a huge area of corruption.
-- Ashraf Ghani -
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
-- Babe Ruth -
How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.
-- Betty Smith -
I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.
-- Bob Uecker -
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Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it.
-- Bowie Kuhn -
Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.
-- Breaux Greer -
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 -
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 -
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Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.
-- Charles E. McKenzie -
It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits..
-- Charles Jaffe -
Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined.
-- Corinne Maier -
The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
-- Danica McKellar -
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If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
-- Dave Chappelle -
What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't.
-- David Bellamy -
I feel it is correct to publish the salaries.
-- Dieter Zetsche -
Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
-- Dorothy Parker -
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My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.
-- Duke Snider -
My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. If I were to get paid a million, I'd feel that I should sweep out the stadium every night after I finished playing the game.
-- Duke Snider -
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
-- Ethel Waters -
Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.
-- Ferguson Jenkins -
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I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
-- Gene Tierney -
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 -
Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
-- Harold Ramis -
I don't talk about my salary.
-- Howard Stern -
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Try to save something while your salary is small; it's impossible to save after you begin to earn more.
-- Jack Benny -
It is easy to be grateful for a bonus; it is character to be grateful for a salary.
-- Jack Hyles -
The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards.
-- Jack Welch -
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the workmen in the camp to receive the salary of the legislator... who want to level even talents, knowledge, the virtues, because they themselves have none of these things.
-- Jacques Pierre Brissot -
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Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.
-- James Sinegal -
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.
-- James Sinegal -
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 -
Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.
-- Jerry Buss -
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It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
-- Jessica Savitch -
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 -
It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs.
-- Jim Talent -
Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.
-- Jodi Rell -
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If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'
-- Joe DiMaggio -
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 -
Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.
-- Joseph L. Mankiewicz -
The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.
-- Kathy Bates -
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At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.
-- Larry Hagman -
My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.
-- Lillie Langtry -
If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.
-- Lou Gerstner -
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
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Instead, the Nationals will pay Scherzer $15 million per season, but do so for 14 years; essentially, they’ve deferred half of each season’s salary seven years into the future.
-- Max Scherzer -
Another last-minute, good-deed job,†Royce grumbled as he stuffed supplies into his saddlebag. “True,†Hadrian said, slinging his sword belt over his shoulder, “but this is at least a paying job.†“You should have told him the real reason we saved him from Trumbul— because we wouldn’t see the hundred tenents otherwise.†“That was your reason. Besides, how often do we get to do royal contracts? If word gets around, we’ll be able to command top salaries.†“If word gets around, we’ll be hanged.
-- Michael J. Sullivan -
My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.
-- Michael Strahan -
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 -
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Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.
-- Neal Boortz -
A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.
-- Nick Clooney -
TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.
-- Norman Lear -
Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media.
-- Paul Ormerod -
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Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle.
-- Peter Brimelow -
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 -
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 -
I'm from where your hustle determines your salary.
-- Rick Ross -
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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 -
Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period of initiative has ended. Do it now!
-- Robert Cochrane -
Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can.
-- Sam Altman -
Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
-- Samora Machel -
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I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.
-- Satyajit Ray -
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 -
The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.
-- Virgil Goode -
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 -
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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 -
We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.
-- Babatunde Fashola -
Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job.
-- Dana Goldstein -
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with philosophers and poets, or playwrights. We do not live in that moment, and the best way to gauge the proximity of an academic field to power is by salary.
-- Elliott Colla -
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Many women are simply bad at negotiating (their salaries). Many are happy if they succeed in returning to professional life. The main thing for them is that their job is at least somewhat compatible with their family life. But that's exactly where they are wrong.
-- Kristina Schroder -
Without new money, salaries won't be paid, the health system will stop functioning, the power network and public transport will break down, and they won't be able to import vital goods because nobody can pay.
-- Martin Schulz -
ACID Kreationz was founded in 2008. I formed this business with the purpose of paying my university tuition because my teaching salary would not be able to cover school payments.
-- St. Lucia -
Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
-- Susan B. Anthony -
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Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.
-- Susan B. Anthony -
My parents want me to be a lawyer or something like that. Something steady. That's always their main concern as parents: "Oh, you need a salary, you need life insurance, why aren't you having kids?" But in the end, they're happy about it.
-- Thu Tran -
In general, salary for land surveyors is often similar to that of a professional engineer or lawyer - surveyors are often "comfortable" but not "wealthy."
-- Mark Mason -
Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.
-- Albert Goodwill Spalding -
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People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, can command any wages or salaries.
-- Mary Abigail Dodge -
I have a theory that among the large Western companies (mostly American) the higher an executive is promoted, the more wisdom is lost and by the time he or she reaches the top becomes a complete idiot. Certainly they do not deserve the outrageous salary.
-- Masaaki Imai -
Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. You look at the prison system and who that's chewing up.
-- Randall Robinson -
Did folks know that the tax to fund the program [Social Security] only hits salaries up to $110,000? That means that if you make a million bucks, about 90% of your salary is tax free when it comes to the payroll tax that funds Soc Sec. That ain't right.
-- Jared Bernstein -
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The most lucrative work I have done is presenting primetime TV shows. I do not know what other people earn but a six-figure salary is not uncommon.
-- Kate Thornton
