Salary Quotes

Democrats' definition of "rich" - always seems to be set just above whatever the salary happens to be for a member of Congress. Perhaps that says it all.

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.

Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.

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.

It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.

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.

In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

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.

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

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

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

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.

If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

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.

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

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

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

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

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.