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Salary Quotes

What pay reveals about fairness and sacrifice.

This salary quotes collection covers concerns about pay gaps within a team, the personal cost of meeting payroll, and how quickly earnings can change once a role ends. Related reading sits in our Business quotes.

Twice I had to sell my house to pay my employees' salary.

Quotes by Zhou Qunfei

We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do...

Quotes by William Lacy Clay, Jr.

It would be bad for the squad if one player had a much higher salary than the rest.

Quotes by Wesley Sneijder

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

Quotes by Warren Spahn

Always Quotes

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

Quotes by Virgil Goode

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

Quotes by Upton Sinclair

In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents.

Quotes by Travis Kalanick

I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.

Quotes by Sturgill Simpson

Democrats' definition of 'rich' - always seems to be set just above whatever the salary happens to be for a member of Congress. Perhaps that says it all.

Quotes by Steve Steckler

Business Quotes

I've never seen someone work for a salary.

Quotes by Sophia Amoruso

Initially I even had to work in a textile firm for a meagre salary of Rs. 400 a month. Then things changed for me when I became an assistant to Shekhar Kapoor.

Quotes by Satish Kaushik

I do genre films because I like them or because I need the money. I make a star's salary when I do horror because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.

Quotes by Robert Englund

I have no salary from the Lugar Center. Essentially, the moneys we have received has been from foundations.

Quotes by Richard Lugar

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

Quotes by Pink

Cap Quotes

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.

Quotes by Peter Stormare

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

Quotes by Nicole Kidman

I don't get paid a salary, but I do like to go by private plane because it saves a lot of time and is very efficient.

Quotes by Mike Ashley

There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 percent salary cut.

Quotes by Kevin Yoder

I put a portion of my salary to the side.

Quotes by Kevin-Prince Boateng

Go Quotes

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.

Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

Frequently Asked Questions

What issues do these salary quotes raise?
They raise concerns about pay fairness within teams, the personal cost of meeting payroll, and how pay connects to performance.
Is there a quote about salary imbalance on a team?
Yes, one line warns that a team suffers if one player earns far more than everyone else on the squad. For more on workplace themes, see our Business quotes.
Does the collection mention salary caps or limits?
It touches on how pay ties to reputation and performance, a theme closely related to salary cap discussions in sport. Explore this further in our Cap quotes.
Is there a quote about the personal sacrifice of paying employees?
Yes, one line describes having to sell a house twice just to cover employee salaries.
Does salary get connected to holding public office?
Yes, one quote notes that lawmakers stop drawing their pay the same day they leave public office.

One line even ties consistent performance numbers directly to better pay and reputation over a career. Continue exploring with our Cap and Always quotes.