Best Salary Thoughts
260 Salary quotes by 237 unique authors
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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…
— Michelle Pfeiffer
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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
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Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
— Harold Ramis
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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,…
— Satyajit Ray
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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…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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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
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It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
— Jessica Savitch
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
— Upton Sinclair
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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
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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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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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Ray and I do not draw salaries, Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.
— Steve Vai
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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
— Bill Vaughan
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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…
— Jesse Ventura
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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
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There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the earth because I figure, a) They pay my salary, and…
— James Woods
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Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadableālike Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not…
— Mark Twain
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A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.
— Stephen Fry
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Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
— Dorothy Parker
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Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my…
— Henry Miller
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perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that…
— Barack Obama
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I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking…
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.
— Terry Pratchett
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