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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay. -- Samora Machel
Salaries are a huge area of corruption. -- Ashraf Ghani
Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way. -- Albert Goodwill Spalding
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. -- Bill Vaughan
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires. -- Adam McKay
If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries. -- David Hunt
I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries. -- Alex Ferguson
Yes, I introduced the congressional pay cut bill, cutting our salaries by five percent. And I think we have to lead by example. -- Ann Kirkpatrick
Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men. -- Warren Farrell
I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases. -- Peter Brimelow
A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax. -- Nick Clooney
While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit. -- Jonathan Sacks
A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000. -- Arne Duncan
Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage. -- Neal Boortz
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. 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
I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense. -- Herman Cain
The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport. -- Laurent Fabius
The increase in salaries at private companies has exploded, and Romania also faces a labor shortage, especially in construction. We believe that the Romanian market will remain an incentive, so that migration will not be an issue. -- Traian Basescu
I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service. -- Arthur Capper
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players. -- James Surowiecki
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure. -- Bill Murray
It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs. -- Jim Talent
I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s. -- Candace Parker
I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models. -- Solomon Ortiz
Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail. -- Jonathan Kozol
I feel it is correct to publish the salaries. -- Dieter Zetsche
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. -- James Sinegal
Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries. -- Sunil Bharti Mittal
Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can. -- Sam Altman
It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low. -- Patricia Schroeder
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem. -- Bill Vaughan
Ray and I do not draw salaries, Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in. -- Steve Vai
The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards. -- Jack Welch
Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries. -- Charles E. McKenzie
Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media. -- Paul Ormerod
We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants. -- Babatunde Fashola
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along. -- Aristophanes
Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle. -- Peter Brimelow
There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle. -- Peter Brimelow
If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries. -- Wendy Kopp
I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes. -- Michael Clarke Duncan
They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions. -- Eduard Shevardnadze
When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority. -- Peter Lynch
We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is. -- Shimon Peres
I think today's athletes generally are spoiled by what's happened to salaries, but I also think that golfers have maintained the best demeanor of any sport. -- Arnold Palmer
The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries any longer. -- Alexa Von Tobel
We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer? ... -- Mother Teresa
We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research. -- Clayton M. Christensen
With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority. -- Milton Friedman
Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world. -- Bernie Sanders
When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing. -- James Altucher
Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries. -- Pola Negri
In fact a few simple mathematical calculations reveal that if reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles they play, they would have salaries well over $200,000. -- Will Manley
In the early days, I didn't have the money to pay decent salaries, so I didn't get good people. I got nice people, but I didn't get good employees. -- Louise Hay
Halcyon people have put aside and left their homes, their million dollar salaries, full professorships at major universities, and fully seed-funded startup companies to be part of this effort. -- Luke Nosek
Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen. -- Susan B. Anthony
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country. -- Bainbridge Colby
On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich. -- Josef Albers
What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't. -- David Bellamy
People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, can command any wages or salaries. -- Mary Abigail Dodge
If trustees feel it is in their charity's interest to pay high salaries to attract talented people, then they should have the courage of their conviction and explain their decisions publicly. -- William Shawcross
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for. -- Ludwig von Mises
There are a group of people who are managing the world to their advantage and who just look to the rest of us as people who will buy their products and fund their salaries. -- Jeremy Irons
People are always making a fuss over my $15-20-million salaries. Believe me, the amount is meaningless once my wife, Maria, finds out about it. She's already spent half of my salary from Terminator 7! -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. You look at the prison system and who that's chewing up. -- Randall Robinson
Scientists believe that monkeys can be taught to think, lie and even play politics within their community. If we can just teach them to cheat on their wives we can save millions on congressional salaries. -- Jay Leno
We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year. -- Adora Svitak
County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties. -- Arthur Capper

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