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.
Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.
There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.
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.
If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
Greed plays a role in causing unnecessary surgery, although I don't think the economic motive alone is enough to explain it. There's no doubt that if you eliminated all unnecessary surgery, most surgeons would go out of business. They'd have to look for honest work, because the surgeon gets paid when he performs surgery on you, not when you're treated some other way. In pre-paid group practices where surgeons are paid a steady salary not tied to how many operations they perform, hysterectomies and tonsillectomies occur only about one-third as often as in fee-for-service situations.
Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.
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.
I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
Don't be afraid of imperilling your health by giving a few extra hours to the company that pays your salary!
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?
All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'paycheck to paycheck. ' Studies show that every household wastes 10% or more of its salary or income on unnecessary expenditures or by not taking the time to shop for better prices. It's all a matter of proper budgeting.
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.
I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
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.
The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.
I make a star's salary when I do horror, because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.