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.
If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.
Employment is an employee’s kissing of an employer’s ass. A salary is the employer’s pretense to be cleaning his ass.
It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.
For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.
The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!
A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee’s dream on hold.
The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.
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.
I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.
We didn't care about salaries and having a nice car. We just cared about science and were really ambitious.
I'm trying to set a good example. I don't need to take a high salary, which would impede the success of Morningstar.
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.
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.
Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company.
Sometimes I think, 'Oh, I wish I just had a nice job where you're getting a salary.' Just sometimes.
