Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved."
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Upton Sinclair
Novelist, Activist
"You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands."
Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart."
Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"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.'"
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"You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands."
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"Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it."
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"To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death."
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"Private sector unionization is down to practically seven percent. Meanwhile the public sector unions have kind of sustained themselves [even] under attack, but in the last few years, there's been a sharp [increase in the] attack on public sector unions, which Barack Obama has participated in, in fact. When you freeze salaries of federal workers, that's equivalent to taxing public sector people."
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"If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher."
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"If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well isolated with a fixed salary. Judges in this whole thing have come out pretty well - there have been relatively few scandals."
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"The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office."
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"In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it."
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"Did folks know that the tax to fund the program [Social Security] only hits salaries up to $110,000? That means that if you make a million bucks, about 90% of your salary is tax free when it comes to the payroll tax that funds Soc Sec. That ain't right."
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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."
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"I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has got some things going for it."
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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."
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"I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't."
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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?"
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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."
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"The most lucrative work I have done is presenting primetime TV shows. I do not know what other people earn but a six-figure salary is not uncommon."
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"The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways."
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"Between the money and the illegal merchandise, Bones was getting millions. No wonder he laughed at my salary. -Cat"
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