Salary – Quotes

There is a species

There is a species of person called a ‘Modern Churchman’ who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. Evelyn Waugh

Asking what I considered

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn’t want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again. Ethel Waters

One year I hit

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

There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with philosophers and poets, or playwrights. We do not live in that moment, and the best way to gauge the proximity of an academic field to power is by salary. Elliott Colla

In Liberia, our salary

In Liberia, our salary scales are so low that our judicial system has become corrupt over the years. Now, we need to do some things ourselves. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Have I ever remarked

Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top … Read more

I was working as

I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn’t know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that’s part of the romantic … Read more

The minister should preach

The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man’s, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are … Read more

For people who aren\\’t

For people who aren’t familiar with my background, I didn’t graduate high school. My career high salary was about \$200,000. My last position was about \$122,000. For a guy without a high school diploma, that’s pretty good. Edward Snowden

Don\\’t you know that

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 … Read more