#salary

Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work. ↗

— Carlos Roche

#career #employment #hourly-wages #imagination #job

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#equipment #i #i think #made #maybe

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. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#admit #analysis #control #final #final analysis

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

#asking #considered #i #impossible #pay

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary. ↗

— George Woodcock

#compromise #editing #go #half #i

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. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#beyond #cases #doing #employees #end

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. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#award #chief #chief executive #corporation #executive

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#age #decent #films #go #independent

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#business #camera #capture #fails #fee

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#books #church #could #god #i