Salary Quotes - Page 2

• In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Power, Men, Support

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• Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

  James Sinegal

  Messages, Brilliance, Company

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• 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

  Simple, Thinking, Routine

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.165, Penguin

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• 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

  Analysis, Firsts, Finals

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• 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

  Motivational, Character, Actors

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• Don't let people scare you from a career that may not net you a six figure salary. If you want to be a teacher, teach. But knowing that your salary may only reach a certain level, do all that you can to become the best money manager you can be.

  Michelle Singletary

  Teacher, Careers, Knowing

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• 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

  Business, Awards, Achievement

  Annals of an Abiding Liberal ch. 6 (1979)

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• A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Inspirational, Funny, Respect

  Keep the Faith, Baby! "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power" (1967)

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• The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay. But a gentleman's anxieties concern the progress of the Way; he has no anxiety concerning poverty.

  Confucius

  Life, Thinking, Gentleman

  "The Analects of Confucius".

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• Don't be afraid of imperilling your health by giving a few extra hours to the company that pays your salary!

  Charles M. Schwab

  Giving, Pay, Hours

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.

  Virgil Goode

  Office, Ends, Congress

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• 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

  Education, Race, Class

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• Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as equals, to sit down and talk to us about the work we do, how we do it, and what we get paid for it. And I believe that the principles for which we fought in 1934 are still true and still useful. Whether your job is pushing a four-wheeler, or programming a computer, I don't know of any way for working people to win basic economic justice and dignity except by being organized into a solid, democratic union.

  Harry Bridges

  Jobs, Work, Believe

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• If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

  Dave Chappelle

  Teacher, Thinking, Comedy

  "Chappelle the Shape-Shifter Sits Still Long Enough to Chat" by Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2006.

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• 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

  Personality, Dimes, Demand

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Real, Believe, Class

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• But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

  Orson Scott Card

  Fun, Teaching, Writing

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• New Year, the season for changes in positions and advances in salaries, approaches. If you have in your employ some who deserve more salary, do not compel them to go through the unpleasant ordeal of asking a raise, but, rather, voluntarily increase their remuneration. A raise that comes from the boss without asking is worth a lot more than one that has to be gouged out of him. Is it not true that a great many employers who would not dream of overcharging their customers have no qualms whatever about underpaying their employees if the latter will submit without protest?

  B. C. Forbes

  Dream, New Year, Deserve More

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• Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.

  Brett Favre

  Team, Player, Guy

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• A salary was not sufficient for me.

  P. T. Barnum

  Sufficient

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• 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

  Exercise, Merit, Pockets

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.11

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• 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

  Democracy, Receiving, Wages

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• A church debt is the devil's salary.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Church, Devil, Debt

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• I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Dollars, Able, Firsts

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• It's not just other countries in Europe having a say over what we do. It's unelected bureaucrats in Brussels on sort of six-figure, huge salaries telling us how we run our country despite having never stood for an election themselves.

  David Cameron

  Running, Country, Europe

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