logo

Quotes About Pay

Social Security recipients, who have been forced to pay into this alleged retirement system, will have their benefits slashed, and those who are currently paying into the system will be forced to face the fact that they have been participating in a Ponzi scheme.
~ Daniel Miller
Ça vous plaît ? – C'est comme tout. Beaucoup trop payé pour ce que je fais, mais pas assez pour ce que je m'emmerde.
~ Daniel Pennac
To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.
~ Dave Eggers
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
~ James Buchan
I think people might be willing to pay for the special odor of corruption which, I hope, floats over my stories.
~ James Joyce
Men would fight well for their pay, but they would die for an aspiration.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
What a shocking set of crooks these English servants are! Not even murder will turn them from their feudal devotion to the man who pays!
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No reasonable offer refused.
~ Agatha Christie
I have had a long experience in the compilation of statistics. From that experience I can assure you that in 87% of cases dishonesty does not pay.
~ Agatha Christie
Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.
~ Akhenaton
Behavioral economics tells us that people often focus too much on the wrong things, and tend to focus on aspects of the job that are salient. So, for example, the pay is salient, especially the starting pay.
~ Alan Krueger
Performers only get to do their showing off because the public pay to see them. To deny your audience a photo, whatever the format, seems a little rude to me.
~ Sue Perkins
Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am all too familiar, having been brought up in the city of Sheffield; and it certainly isn't badly paid compared with any of my constituents.
~ David Blunkett
People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.
~ Aaron Taylor-Johnson
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
~ Robert Capa
Klopp really likes the way I pay and fight for every ball. He sees me as a true warrior.
~ Ciro Immobile
To wash dishes is not the same as a guy running a numerically-controlled machine. That guy running a numerically-controlled machine is going to get a higher level of pay because his training is higher, and he should get a higher level of pay.
~ Wayne Rogers
Hollywood don't always pay a lot of money. Because we're English they think we're cheap!
~ Ray Winstone
At the end of the day, my bread and butter comes from films, so I have to work in films that may not have a great script, but give me a fat pay cheque.
~ Paresh Rawal
Working in a restaurant is tough. You're standing in front of hot things, holding sharp things, for hours on end with little pay. But, oh, the seltzer. The one respite from never-ending back pain is a bubbly, bottomless supply of it.
~ Sohla El-Waylly
One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
~ Ronald Reagan
Warden Sullivan, you're not taking this in the spirit it's intended. I am very concerned to know who you sold me to. I'm not going to go away, just because you have some residual scruples about client confidentiality. Believe me, they didn't pay you enough to hold out on me.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Nonchalance, she could have told Argosy, does not pay.
~ Julie Anne Long
A movie's a place where you pay your money to exchange faces for a while [page 88].
~ K?b? Abe