Brilliance Quote by James Sinegal

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

— James Sinegal

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

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

— Justin Welby

I have a theory that among the large Western companies (mostly American) the higher an executive is promoted, the more wisdom is lost and…

— Masaaki Imai

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are…

— Ben Hecht

It's a warehouse of human slavery and it doesn't help for a person who need a weekly salary. So if your eyes can't be…

— Black Uhuru

This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top managers and…

— Slavoj Žižek

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are…

— Ben Hecht

“the increase in very high incomes and very high salaries primarily reflects the advent of “supermanagers,” that is, top executives of large firms who…

— Thomas Piketty

There's so much technical and practical skill that goes into everybody's jobs, and wages should reflect that. Massive companies shouldn't be able to just…

— Ayo Edebiri

You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.

— Gary Lineker

“Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise…

— Michael Harrington