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Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart. -- Dorothy Parker
There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it. -- Drew Carey
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. -- Jim Carrey
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. -- Evelyn Waugh
I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do. -- Roald Dahl
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.' -- Alfred Hitchcock
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. -- Theodore Roosevelt
It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.. -- Charles Jaffe
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. -- Bill Vaughan
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will. -- Alexander Hamilton
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
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
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? -- Beah Richards
The benefits and $174,000 per year salary that we get, we earn. It's not elaborate, it's just a bunch of poppycock that a lot of people have spread around trying to get us to hate our own government and our government representatives. -- Hank Johnson
We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions. -- Adolf Hitler
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing. -- Thomas Jefferson
Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts. -- Molly Ivins
The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever. -- Auberon Waugh
Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As long as we only talk about economic classes, profit, salaries, and production, and as long as we believe that real human progress is determined by a particular system of distribution of wealth and goods, then we are not even close to what is essential. -- Julius Evola
The perks of a new government are not really appealing to me. Everybody would like to have a good job, a good salary.....but for me that is not the all of struggle. What is important is the continuation of the struggle... the real problems of the country are not whether one is in Cabinet ...but what we do for social upliftment of the working masses of our country. -- Chris Hani
Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job? -- Nicole Kidman
Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it. -- Bowie Kuhn
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
Salary is not life- be it fifty-hundred-thousand or five thousand rupees. Every great man gives the credit of his development to his teacher. What else can bring more happiness for a teacher? -- Narendra Modi
The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be. -- Anna Held
I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging. -- Gene Tierney
If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher. -- Dave Chappelle
I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment. -- Bob Uecker
I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy. -- Allan Sherman
I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary. -- Simon Cowell
My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking. -- Mika Brzezinski
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
Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me. -- Shirley Manson
I just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn't have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life. -- Steve Wozniak
The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you're headed for the unemployment lines. Your market value declines as you age, and it becomes harder and harder to get a job. -- Vivek Wadhwa
If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts. -- Jackie Speier
The point of the feminist movement wasn't simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no one's worth was judged on their take-home salary. -- Mariella Frostrup
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
My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that? -- Dikembe Mutombo
It's difficult on a ship to get away from your job because that accommodation house, which is where seafarers live, is their workplace, it's where they live, it's where they relax, it's everything, and it's just hard to get away. And seafarers often refer to their job as being in prison with a salary. -- Rose George
We are beginning to see a fundamental outrage at the whole interconnected mess of a system: at energy companies who record massive profits, yet allow pensioners to struggle to stay warm in winter; at CEOs who can earn up to a 1,000 times the salary of their average worker; and soon, any day now, at those politicians who allowed this to happen. -- Noreena Hertz
I don't talk about my salary. -- Howard Stern
A church debt is the devil's salary. -- Henry Ward Beecher
A salary was not sufficient for me. -- P. T. Barnum
I'm from where your hustle determines your salary. -- Rick Ross
Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job. -- Dana Goldstein
Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention. -- Jerry Buss
It's not about a salary, it's all about reality. -- KRS-One
My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary. -- Michael Strahan
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term. -- Matt Mullenweg
My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. -- Duke Snider
You can name your own salary in this business. I call mine Fred. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be happy with little than miserable with much. -- Max Lucado
Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities. -- Ferguson Jenkins
It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS. -- Jessica Savitch
If my salary is taken without my agreement, it is a violation of my rights, -- Mu Sochua
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair
The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure. -- Charles M. Schwab
The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief. -- George Allen
The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office. -- Virgil Goode
I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that's the last thing I need. -- Steve Wozniak
The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy. -- Kathy Bates
Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary. -- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The U.K. is one of the few places in the world that has final salary pensions. -- Jim Ratcliffe
On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made. -- Clint Eastwood
Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie. -- Harold Ramis
Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company. -- Steve Wozniak
A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free. -- Stephen Fry
TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary. -- Norman Lear
The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands. -- Mark Twain
Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay! -- Susan B. Anthony
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time. -- Babe Ruth
It is easy to be grateful for a bonus; it is character to be grateful for a salary. -- Jack Hyles
Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick. -- Breaux Greer
One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise. -- Enos Slaughter
Between the money and the illegal merchandise, Bones was getting millions. No wonder he laughed at my salary. -Cat -- Jeaniene Frost
Try to save something while your salary is small; it's impossible to save after you begin to earn more. -- Jack Benny
President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it. -- Sam Ewing
The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing. -- Joe Torre
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair
Don't be afraid of imperilling your health by giving a few extra hours to the company that pays your salary! -- Charles M. Schwab
Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food. -- Joel Salatin
Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary. -- John F. Kennedy
What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need. -- Jean-Claude Van Damme
If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors -- Nouman Ali Khan
The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality. -- Curtis Jackson
Try saving when your salary is low. So after making more money, you will not be able to do this anywhere -- Jack Benny
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again. -- Ethel Waters
I make a star's salary when I do horror, because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany. -- Robert Englund
I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary. -- Deborah Copaken Kogan
I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary. -- Deborah Copaken Kogan
For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week. -- Pink
A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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. -- Patrick F. McManus
Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians. -- Dennis Miller
I don't clean, I don't make the bed. I spend my salary. I worry a lot. I just don't worry about socks on the floor. -- Amanda Peet
The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays. -- Terry Pratchett
TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't. -- Jessica Lange
In general, salary for land surveyors is often similar to that of a professional engineer or lawyer - surveyors are often "comfortable" but not "wealthy." -- Mark Mason
Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career. -- Bill Vaughan
When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters. -- Paige Craig
A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Peter Stormare
The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike. -- Guy Lafleur
I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary. -- George Woodcock
Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid. -- Karen DeCrow
Instead, the Nationals will pay Scherzer $15 million per season, but do so for 14 years; essentially, they've deferred half of each season's salary seven years into the future. -- Max Scherzer
The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary. -- Rashmi Bansal
The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways. -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Salmon P. Chase
Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy. -- Wendell Berry
My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself. -- Lillie Langtry
I love beating the men. When I beat 'em in the ratings, when I beat 'em in the salary, I always say, 'One more for the girls. -- Cristina Saralegui

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