Salary Quotes - Page 13

• 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

  Friday, Home, Evil

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.294, Random House

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• 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

  Catholic, Want, Helping

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Men, Thinking

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• It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life - your success - depends on your family and how much money they have, where you go to college, what sort of job you can pin down, starting salary...But it doesn't, you know. You wouldn't believe this, but life hinges on a couple of seconds you never see coming. And what you decide in those few seconds determines everything from then on... And you have no idea what you'll do until you're there.

  Marisha Pessl

  Jobs, Growing Up, Couple

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• A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to lead her and to read her every page. Even minimal people can't survive on minimal wage. A certain person wondered why I wait all week for you. I didn't have the words to describe just what you do. I said you had the motion of the ocean in your walk, and when you solve my riddles you don't even have to talk.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Strong, Jobs

  Maya Angelou (2011). “I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems”, p.46, Random House

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• Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Teacher, School, Government

  "The West Wing". www.imdb.com. 1999–2006.

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• Between the money and the illegal merchandise, Bones was getting millions. No wonder he laughed at my salary. -Cat

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Wonder, Bones

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• Don't you know that there's another bubble as well An expectations bubble. Bigger houses private planes yachts ...... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst as well as all bubbles do. Come to my gallery and I will sell you beautiful things at a more reasonable price. But the point is that they will have value. Things of real beauty things of the spirit.

  Edward Rutherfurd

  Beautiful, Real, Stupid

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• Another last-minute, good-deed job,” Royce grumbled as he stuffed supplies into his saddlebag. “True,” Hadrian said, slinging his sword belt over his shoulder, “but this is at least a paying job.” “You should have told him the real reason we saved him from Trumbul— because we wouldn’t see the hundred tenents otherwise.” “That was your reason. Besides, how often do we get to do royal contracts? If word gets around, we’ll be able to command top salaries.” “If word gets around, we’ll be hanged.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Jobs, Real, Should Have

  Michael J Sullivan (2011). “Theft Of Swords: The Riyria Revelations”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• They were the reason that he kept faith with his stars, that reinforced him in his belief that the universe had more in store for him than the mug's game of working for a modest salary until he retired or died.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stars, Games, Belief

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• How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Mother, Men, Wife

  Katharine Hepburn (1988). “The Making of the African Queen Or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind”, Plume

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• One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

  Enos Slaughter

  Baseball, Cutting, Years

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• You can name your own salary in this business. I call mine Fred.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Life, Names, Mines

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• The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with the annual salary of one thousand florins, and with the title of Philosopher and Principal Mathematicial to His Highness; without the duties of office to perform, but with the most complete leisure; so that I can complete my Treatises.

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Office, Dukes

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• 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

  Daughter, Mother, Men

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• If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'

  Joe DiMaggio

  Sitting Down, Statistics, Dave

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• There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.

  John McCain

  Teacher, Average, Years

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• If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent of your paycheck for the FICA for Social Security wage withholding. You have to pay medical care, you have to pay the banks for your credit card debt, student loans. Then you only have about twenty-five or thirty-five percent, maybe one-third of your salary to buy goods and services. That's all.

  Michael Hudson

  Income, Three, Cards

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving. I'm so lucky to have this job, I'm compensated for my work in an incredible way. But what I do ask is when I join a production I want to make sure that the male actor isn't making four times my salary, which has been true, or seven times my salary. And if that's true you go, you know what, I don't need this job. It's not really asking for more - it's asking for something that is respectable and equal to the male actor and you have to go, why are women being valued less?

  Jessica Chastain

  Jobs, Want, Way

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten percent of the work, often largely funding their operations - and their salaries - through grants that they don't even apply for. If it wasn't for publicly-funded arts bodies and organizations such as PEN, I wouldn't have been able to work on either [Abdellatif] Laâbi or [ Rashid ] Boudjedra.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Art, Organization, Risk

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think we go wrong when we insist, as some have done since 1945, on using experts who are paid Western salaries, drive beautiful cars and live in air-conditioned houses to teach people in the Third World how to improve their living conditions.

  Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

  Beautiful, Thinking, Air

  Source: simerg.com

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• If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?

  Diane Ravitch

  School, Successful, Average

  Diane Ravitch (2013). “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools”, p.219, Vintage

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• 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.

  Warren Spahn

  Games, Two, Magic

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• The entertainment business is and always has been about money, and it's about, "Does that person merit that salary?" The fact is that the business, in my view, has been somewhat bankrupt for years - only the new media made it viable.

  Mike Medavoy

  Views, Media, Years

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

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• 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

  Country, Teacher, Teaching

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