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Quotes About Salary

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.
~ Charles Babbage
I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.
~ Curt Flood
I made $400.00 a week for my tenure at GLOW. I was there for about nine months.
~ Ivory
Salary negotiations shouldn't be limited to just salary. Salary pays your mortgage, but terms build your career.
~ Christopher Voss
I tell you, Chickadee I am afraid of people Who cannot cry Tears left unshed Turn to poison In the ducts Ask the next soldier you see Enjoying a massacre If this is not so. People who do not cry Are victims Of soul mutilation Paid for in Marlboros And trucks. Violence does not work Except for the man Who pays your salary Who knows If you could still weep You would not take the job.
~ Alice Walker
Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the colossal vitality of his illusion. Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher's salary.
~ Alison Bechdel
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.
~ Joel Osteen
You can name your own salary in this business. I call mine Fred.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Summer vacation is the time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid.
~ Anonymous
The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
~ Danica McKellar
A footballer in three weeks earns what a dancer makes in a year.
~ Sergei Polunin
When guys feel like it's a contract year so you're forcing, you're stressing, you're trying to do that, what I try to tell them is GMs and scouts don't even look at your points per game. They look at your efficiency, your plus-minus. Everything's so analytical. You can average 15 and be a terrible analytic player - you're not going to get paid.
~ Jared Dudley
The difference between tithe and first fruit, first fruit is all of it. All of what? Well, if you want to bring God all of one day's salary, one week's salary or one month's salary, that's between you and God... I try to bring a month's salary, but at the very least every year I give God a week's salary.
~ Paula White
Do I get a salary?' inquired Tik-Tok. 'You get your share of the plunder,' answered the Queen. 'Yes,' remarked Files, 'one-half of the plunder goes to Queen Ann, the other half is divided among the officers, and the Private gets the rest.
~ Frank Baum
Several salesmen focused on how many "bars" they made. To derivatives salesmen, a "bar" is not a place to go for drinks. A "bar" is a salary, a huge salary, with a long line of zeros, at least six of them. On Wall Street, you never said, "I make a million dollars a year." You said, "I make a bar." Lots of DPG employees made bars, often several. Of course, I, too, wanted to make bars, and by the end of the day I was salivating.
~ Frank Partnoy
My salary swings an unbelievable amount. When I had Holly, I took seven months off, so my salary was very low. It fluctuates wildly. No one pays you for the period you spend writing. I am certainly not rich.
~ Deirdre O'Kane
I know how to read a spreadsheet, I know what I'm worth so I can go into meetings and say, 'I get paid that much, thank you.'
~ George Groves
Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.
~ James Altucher
It was definitely not the salary that made me join Manchester United; I went for football reasons - for the history of the club, the league, the fans, and the coach because he is one of the best in the world.
~ Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Dont struggle for salary.. DO struggle for Success..
~ Bhadra
Most of teachers have but one object, viz. to draw their salary. I do not think that a teacher should have no salary. But I think they should earn it first and then think of it.
~ Sarah Winnemucca
I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.
~ David Eddings
I believe that teachers committed to the community are the ones who deserve to earn the top dollar, a starting salary of a quarter million dollars a year.
~ Michael Clarke Duncan
There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.
~ John McCain