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“Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.”

Today Stars Huge Cost Taxes Comparison Bites Salary

Author:Pola Negri

“We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.”

Giving Matter Imagine Cost Giving Up Percent No Matter What Workers Inflation Salary Freeze

Author:Shimon Peres

“Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.”

Has Beens Effort Thousand Ten Percent Thanks Adam Economist Salary Folds Tariffs

Author:Milton Friedman

“But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery - the wage slaves - expect salvation - if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.”

“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.”

Beats Salary Mcdonalds Going For It

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of £300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic.”

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Author:John Lanchester

“I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.”

People Feels Trying Class Soccer Sympathy Tickets Working Class Salary Lad

Author:Alex Ferguson

“My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. If I were to get paid a million, I'd feel that I should sweep out the stadium every night after I finished playing the game.”

Ifs Feels Should Night Games Millions Thousand Six Seasons Paid Dollars Finished Forty Every Night Salary Stadiums Cadillacs

Author:Duke Snider

“Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.”

Men Years Company Study Higher Starting Engineering Engineers Salary Scholarship

Author:Warren Farrell

“Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media.”

Way Media Involved Cost Despite Secure Economist Exposure Salary Employing Stockbrokers

Author:Paul Ormerod

“I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.”

Government Simple Principles Blessing Debt Saving Devices Officers Revenue Salary Savings Partisans Discharge National Debt Frugal Multiplication

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803

“But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.”

Ifs Writing Stills Hard Stories Would Be Fun Cutting Teaching Accustomed Writing Life Salary Love Teaching

Author:Orson Scott Card

“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.”

People Knows Ends Cases Originals Managers Employee Salary Pension Secured

Author:Jerry Brown

“What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.”

Needs Giving Actors Promise Directors Salary I Promise

Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme

“We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You will recollect that, at the first meeting of the Board of Directors, I took the ground that 'it was our policy to make the office of operator desirable, to pay operators well and make their situation so agreeable that intelligent men and men of character will seek the place and dread to lose it.' I still think so, and, depend upon it, it is the soundest economy to act on this principle.”

“Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.”

Should Reality Pay Economic Performances Enterprise Wages Salary Deviation

Author:Samora Machel

“I don't talk about my salary.”

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Author:Howard Stern

“When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.”

Two Shows Difficult My Own Economy Cutting Sacrifice Needed Difficult Times Salary Two Days Making Sacrifices

Author:Joyce Banda

“I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.”

People Thinking Knows Matter Pay Watches Salary Doubted Nbc

Author:Ann Curry

“Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman.”

Kind Country Running Jobs Poverty Higher Rate Our Country Receiving Composition Unemployment Salary Unemployment Rate

Author:Laura Chinchilla

“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.”

Persons Helping Black White Office Connected Salary Fees Black Or White

Author:Salmon P. Chase

“To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.”

Should Teacher Teaching Students Paid Starting Range Earning Salary Caliber

Author:Arne Duncan

“The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.”

“Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.”

Attention Salary Outlandish

Author:Jerry Buss

“The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.”

Ends Members Office Congress Salary

Author:Virgil Goode

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