Salary Quotes

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.

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.

It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.

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?

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.

I don't talk about my salary.

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.

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.

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

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.

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

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, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.

When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 percent salary cut.

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.

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.

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.