Quotes About Salary

The basic rate of pay was 150 U.S. dollars a month for a volunteer (the rank given to the private soldier or enlisted man) plus another 5 dollars a day danger pay, payable when a man was in an officially declared danger zone, making 300 dollars a month altogether. At that time 300 dollars would have been roughly twice as much as a qualified artisan could earn in his trade as a civilian in South Africa.

Your cigarettes are basically gifts. Your salary basically stays the same. You basically don't need a wife . . . I forget the fourth.

A society entirely based on selfishness and disunity will have no future. A country that does not strive for progress is simply waiting for a salary. Selfishness is the suicide of a country.

The salary is not good in engineering fields, it is just compensation for your hard work and the money you paid in college or university.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

In Japan, the highest-paid executive earns only fifteen times what the average worker does. Here, CEOs earn five hundred times more, but that's supposed to motivate the American worker. To do what, kidnap his boss?

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

I think Upton Sinclair once wrote that a man has difficulty understanding something if his salary depends on his not understanding.

People think we make 3 million and 4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make 500,000.

Ego had brought him to this point, that stupid refusal to quit the case, to simply do the job according to procedure and pick up the monthly salary transfer. Now look where it had brought him, sitting right next to a crapping great fusion bomb.