Salary Quotes - page 2

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. (Daniel Keys Moran)
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again. View quote
Ethel Waters
I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging. View quote
Gene Tierney
Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie. View quote
Harold Ramis
Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention. View quote
Jerry Buss
It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS. View quote
Jessica Savitch
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. View quote
Jodi Rell
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. View quote
Lillie Langtry
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. View quote
Larry Hagman
Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman. View quote
Laura Chinchilla
We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom. (Major Owens)
My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking. View quote
Mika Brzezinski
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. View quote
Mike Medavoy
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. View quote
Nolan Ryan
TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary. View quote
Norman Lear
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. View quote
Peter Stormare
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. View quote
Shirley Jones
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. View quote
Warren Spahn
In spite of all humans' innate interest in the interrelatedness of all experience, long ago these world-power-structure builders learned to shunt all the bright intellectuals and the physically creative into specialist careers. The powerful reserved for themselves the far easier, because innate, comprehensive functioning. All one needs to do is to discover how self-perpetuating is this disease of specialization is to witness the inter-departmental battling for educational funds and the concomitant jealous guarding of the various specializations assigned to a department's salaried experts on each subject in any university. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
That's absolutely one of my most favorite movies, for so many reasons. I fought for that part; I wanted it badly. I took a lower salary, I did everything. Grace Kelly said, 'I'll never forgive you for playing that part. It was written for me. She [Kelly] got the prince [Rainier], I got the part. View quote
Lauren Bacall
Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would, would take. I think the answer to that problem is in Congress' lap. People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say "we want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else." (Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make. View quote
Michelle Pfeiffer
There were thousands of moving messages. People sent money from their first month's salary. Others said: This is my retirement payment-take it. This is the money for my next pair of shoes-take it. It was very important for me to see and hear those things. Normally you do not see the warmth, humor, care and generosity of the people while writing a blog. You just feel like you are walking in a dark tunnel and you feel alone. View quote
Ai Weiwei
A church debt is the devil's salary. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
The greatest hope I have for our country is in the widespread kindling of that real desire for education which I regard as almost the only fruit of the war on which I can look with satisfaction...we are apt to lose sight of the importance of education as an end in itself. If you regard education solely from the point of view of enabling you to earn a salary, useful as that may be, you miss one of the best things for which education stands. View quote
Stanley Baldwin