100+ Salary Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

topic: Player, Thinking, Salary

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

- Bowie Kuhn

topic: Arbitration, Salary

Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.

- Breaux Greer

topic: Salary, Sticks

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

topic: Mcdonalds, Salary, Going For It

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

topic: Exercise, Pockets, Salary

Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.

- Charles E. McKenzie

topic: Land, Salary, Pay

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits..

- Charles Jaffe

topic: Business, Salary, Rich, Money Management

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

source: Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.19, Vintage

topic: Business, Salary, Would Be, Turnover

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

topic: Giving, Cameras, Salary, Publicists

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

- Dave Chappelle

topic: Teacher, Thinking, Salary

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

source: "The green man". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2002.

topic: Salary, Done, World, Greenpeace, Wwf

I feel it is correct to publish the salaries.

- Dieter Zetsche

topic: Salary, Feels, Publish

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Soul, Salary, Body

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

- Duke Snider

topic: Salary, Dollars, Cadillacs

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

topic: Night, Games, Salary

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

topic: Salary, Asking, Want

Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.

- Ferguson Jenkins

topic: Salary, Charity, Staff

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

- Gene Tierney

topic: Salary

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

topic: Jobs, School, Salary, Welfare State

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

- Harold Ramis

topic: Thinking, Talking, Salary

I don't talk about my salary.

- Howard Stern

topic: Salary

Try to save something while your salary is small; it's impossible to save after you begin to earn more.

- Jack Benny

topic: Money, Trying, Salary

It is easy to be grateful for a bonus; it is character to be grateful for a salary.

- Jack Hyles

topic: Grateful, Character, Salary

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

topic: Pain, Ideas, Salary

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

topic: Salary, Levels, Want, Workmen, Organised

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

- James Sinegal

topic: Salary, Messages, Company, Emanate, Brilliance

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

topic: Messages, Salary, Factories

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

topic: People, Salary, Ends

Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.

- Jerry Buss

topic: Salary, Attention, Outlandish

It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.

- Jessica Savitch

topic: Salary, Irs, Belief

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

topic: Salary, Finals, Analysis

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

source: "Starting Point With Soledad O'Brien", www.cnn.com. June 14, 2012.

topic: Government, Salary, Done

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

topic: Jobs, Salary, Use

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

topic: Sitting Down, Salary, Statistics

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

topic: Able, Firsts, Salary, Tithe, Biblical Stewardship

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

- Joseph L. Mankiewicz

topic: Money, Class, Salary

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

- Kathy Bates

topic: People, Salary, Oscars

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

topic: Years, Salary, Television

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

topic: Drawing, England, Salary

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

topic: Believe, Years, Salary

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

topic: Democracy, Receiving, Salary, Deputies, Members Of Parliament

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

- Michael Strahan

source: "Talking Points: Clemens On Viagra & More" by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.

topic: Jobs, Ambition, Salary, Craziest, Madden

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

topic: Beautiful, Salary, Mature

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

topic: Unions, Salary, Minimum Wage

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

topic: President, Salary, Social, President Bush, Eliminating

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

- Norman Lear

topic: People, Salary, Pay

Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media.

- Paul Ormerod

source: "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

topic: Media, Way, Salary, Stockbrokers

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

topic: Educational, Political, Salary, Education Spending

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

topic: Priorities, Firsts, Salary, Shareholders

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

topic: Years, Salary, Bills

I'm from where your hustle determines your salary.

- Rick Ross

topic: Hustle, Salary, Determine

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

topic: Simple, Thinking, Salary

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

topic: Work, Salary, World

Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can.

- Sam Altman

topic: Organization, Salary, Lows

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

topic: Reality, Salary, Wages

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

source: Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.100, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Waiting, Mind, Salary

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Children, School, Salary

The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.

- Virgil Goode

topic: Office, Salary, Congress

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

source: William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.132, Macmillan

topic: Years, Cash, Salary, Euler

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

topic: Artist, People, Salary

We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

- Babatunde Fashola

topic: Should Have, Pay, Salary, Power Plants, Screening

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

- Dana Goldstein

topic: Jobs, Men, Salary

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

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Humanity, Salary, Gauges

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

topic: Jobs, Salary, Succeed, Negotiating

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

topic: Health, Salary, Down And, Imports, Health System

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

topic: Teaching, School, Salary

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Salary, Dollars, Wages

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

topic: President, Salary, Noble

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

topic: Kids, Parent, Salary

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

source: "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

topic: Land, Salary, Lawyer, Surveyors, Land Surveyor

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

topic: Baseball, Salary, Way

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

topic: People, Salary, Employment

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

source: Source: blog.deming.org

topic: Salary, Idiot, Lost

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

topic: African American, Salary, Unemployment, Prison System, Net Worth

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

topic: Mean, Payroll Tax, Salary, Socs

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

source: Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

topic: Tv Shows, People, Salary

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

- Charles M. Schwab

source: Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Men, Self, Salary

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

- Charles M. Schwab

source: Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Giving, Salary, Pay

I am not a believer in large salaries. I hold that every man should be paid for personal production. Our big men at Bethlehem seldom get salaries of over one hundred dollars a week; but all of them receive bonuses computed entirely on the efficiencies and the economies registered in their departments.

- Charles M. Schwab

source: Charles M. Schwab (1917). “Succeeding with what You Have”

topic: Men, Salary, Dollars

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

topic: Judging, Salary, Want, Good Behavior

A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.

- Stephen Fry

source: Stephen Fry (2014). “The Hippopotamus”, p.10, Soho Press

topic: Regret, Numbers, Salary, Deep Regret

Between the money and the illegal merchandise, Bones was getting millions. No wonder he laughed at my salary. -Cat

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Cat, Salary, Wonder

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

topic: Government, Average, Salary

Contrary to the rhetoric emanating from the American left, the 'rich' are currently paying a lot more than 'their fair share.' It is only a handful of mega-rich, those whose entire incomes are derived from dividends and capital gains, rather than salaries or business profits, who have the ability to pay lower tax rates than some members of the middle class. The left knows this but continues to build their 'freeloading millionaire' straw man because it makes good politics.

- Peter Schiff

source: "There's A Hidden 9 In Herman Cain's 9-9-9 Plan". www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2011.

topic: Men, Class, Salary, Mega, Capital Gains

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

topic: Motivational, Character, Salary

I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Jobs, Labor Force, Salary, Underpaid, Living Wage

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

source: "Jodie Foster Blasts Kristen Stewart–Robert Pattinson Break-Up Spectacle". www.thedailybeast.com. August 15, 2012.

topic: Self, Doe, Salary

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

- Joe Torre

topic: Salary, Facts, Reducing

For decades now, the Democrats have had a good gig buying the votes of government workers with outrageous salaries, benefits and work rules - and then sticking productive earners with the bill. But, now, we're out of money.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Government, Salary, Benefits, Government Workers

When our eyes are set on eternity, the news that someone has come to know the Savior means a great deal more than the news of a salary raise or the prospect of getting the latest high-tech gadget.

- Randy Alcorn

source: Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.171, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

topic: Mean, Eye, Salary

To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

- Mark Twain

topic: Differences, Austin, Salary, Edgar Allen, Natural Death

Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?

- H. L. Mencken

source: H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

topic: Two, House, Salary

Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if nothing is happening while the poor folks are getting poorer and their pharmaceutical bills rise.

- Hal Holbrook

source: "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

topic: Government, Lobbyists, Salary

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

- Upton Sinclair

topic: Understanding, Salary, Depends

While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.

- Jonathan Sacks

source: "In Tough Times, Seek the Spirit" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Opposites, Salary, Euro

Choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be happy with little than miserable with much.

- Max Lucado

topic: Salary, Littles, Satisfaction

But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.

- Robert Benchley

source: Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

topic: Moving, Salary, Tasks

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

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Stars, Spain, Salary

The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.

- Robert M. Pirsig

topic: Real, Mind, Salary, Rational Thought

Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.

- Bernie Sanders

topic: Childhood, United States, Salary, Wealth Inequality

A church debt is the devil's salary.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Church, Devil, Salary

You can name your own salary in this business. I call mine Fred.

- Rodney Dangerfield

topic: Life, Names, Salary

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.

- Drew Carey

source: "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

topic: Salary, Levels, Way

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

source: Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

topic: Real, Salary, Income, Real Problems

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

source: Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.95, University of Chicago Press

topic: Teacher, Salary, Schedules, Underpaid, Seniority

Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.

- Milton Friedman

source: "Milton Friedman RIP" by Walter Block, mises.org. November 17, 2006.

topic: Effort, Salary, Tariffs

There's not gonna be any tuition cuts. There aren't gonna be any drastic reductions in salaries. And in fact when the subject of cuts comes up, the first thing that the opponents of cuts say, "You can't cut this faculty. You can't cut the salaries. You wouldn't save enough money, you can't go there."

- Rush Limbaugh

source: "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.