Salary Quotes

• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

  Upton Sinclair

  Wisdom, Men, People

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Reality, Hip Hop

  Song: My Philosophy

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• You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

  Jim Rohn

  Funny, Motivational, Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 09, 2017

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• The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Motivational, Work, Creativity

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.39, Random House

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• It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

  Charles Jaffe

  Money, Business, Vaccines

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• Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.

  Felix Dennis

  Opportunity, People, Challenges

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.97, Penguin

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• They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

  Charles Bukowski

  Alive, Pay, Back To Work

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• The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Flower, Garden

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• Choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be happy with little than miserable with much.

  Max Lucado

  Littles, Satisfaction, Miserable

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• There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.

  Drew Carey

  Levels, Way, Justify

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Money

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• 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.

  Success, Wisdom, Careers

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Happiness, Witty

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• It is easy to be grateful for a bonus; it is character to be grateful for a salary.

  Jack Hyles

  Grateful, Character, Bonus

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• Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

  Dorothy Parker

  Soul, Body, Want

  New Yorker, 4 Feb. 1928

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• Try to save something while your salary is small; it's impossible to save after you begin to earn more.

  Jack Benny

  Money, Trying, Impossible

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• Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period of initiative has ended. Do it now!

  Robert Cochrane

  Work, World, Slave

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• How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.

  Betty Smith

  Thinking, Usual, Littles

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• Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

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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

  Reality, Wages, Pay

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• If my salary is taken without my agreement, it is a violation of my rights.

  Mu Sochua

  Taken, Rights, Agreement

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• If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Children, Crazy, Doctors

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• Salaries are a huge area of corruption.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Corruption, Areas, Huge

  "Transcript: NPR's Interview With Afghan President Ashraf Ghani". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 23, 2015.

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• 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

  Team, Leader, Mind

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• The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Men, Self, Hours

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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