Salaries Quotes

72 Salaries quotes by 68 unique authors

Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite… — Pola Negri
We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the… — Shimon Peres
I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries. — Alex Ferguson
Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media. — Paul Ormerod
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt;… — Thomas Jefferson
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 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… — Jim Talent
We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You… — Samuel Morse
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
To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and… — Arne Duncan
The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances… — Laurent Fabius
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… — Neal Boortz
We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give… — Joseph Goebbels
Salaries are a huge area of corruption. — Ashraf Ghani
If you have a privately owned system, there's going to be monies leaving the community that will go towards shareholder dividends and high salaries. If… — Bill Simmons
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… — David Bellamy
I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases. — Peter Brimelow
Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men. — Warren Farrell
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower… — Jonathan Kozol
A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to… — Madeleine M. Kunin
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any… — Bill Murray
I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and… — Solomon Ortiz
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… — Jonathan Sacks
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… — James Sinegal
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's… — James Surowiecki

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