Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay. — Samora Machel
All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work. — Steve Martin
It's not about a salary, it's all about reality. — KRS-One
Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people. — Mark Cuban
In the very few interviews I’ve made, it doesn’t matter how long we’ve talked to each other, the headline is still just about my paycheck. — PewDiePie
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live. — Jesse Jackson
Short Paycheck Quotes
I sent my father to Mecca for Hajj with my first paycheck — Mamadou Sakho
I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me. — Bela Lugosi
Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus. — Oprah Winfrey
Its not about earning a paycheck, its about doing something good that you believe in. — Adam Kinzinger
If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say. — Ernie Hudson
There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks. — Joe Pantoliano
Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck. — Pat Williams
I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck. — Marisa Tomei
This was great fun and a nice paycheck and then, as these things happen, the show was canceled. — Michael Storm
In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck. — Tim Cahill
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Living Paycheck To Paycheck Quotes
Today you have millions of Americans that feel left out and out of place in their own country, struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, called bigots because they hold on to traditional values. — Marco Rubio
When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment. — Robert Kiyosaki
I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy. — Will Oldham
Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them. — Macaulay Culkin
Many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and are only one step away from being homeless. Whether you are white, black, Latino, or Asian, we have to be there to help pick each other up. — Raheem Devaughn
I'm not interested in selling out my career for a big paycheck. I would love to live a little more comfortably, but it is very important for me to try and maintain my soul and integrity as a filmmaker in as big of a way as possible. — Daryl Wein
I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have. I think if you're one of a lucky five, maybe, you're that privileged, but most of us are living paycheck to paycheck and we're really extremely grateful for opportunities. — Famke Janssen
We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck. — Lindsey Graham
How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck. — Marco Rubio
First Paycheck Quotes
When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority. — Peter Lynch
We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules. — Jim Leyland
When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo. — Brad Pitt
I got my first paycheck as a cast member in the Broadway production of 'HAIR' when I was 16 years old. — Vicki Sue Robinson
I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account. — Alexa Von Tobel
I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck. — Heather Donahue
I worked at this place called Water World; it was a waterslide park. My brother and my dad framed my first paycheck from this place - which was for $0.00 dollars - because I didn't even make enough to cover the cost of my uniform! — Summer Sanders
I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero. — Miles Teller
The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions. — Katie Leclerc
I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck. — Alice Englert
Just A Paycheck Quotes
That's all that it's going to be. God bless them. But you know what? I've got a nice house and a kid in college, and I'll tell you, we cannot handle it. Giving our paycheck away when you still worked and earned it? That's just not going to fly. — Lee Terry
My mindset was just 'reinvest everything I make' – every time I got a paycheck, that was the month's budget. — MrBeast
A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement. — James H. Douglas
I'll work with Jerry Seinfeld any day of the week. Get a nice little paycheck there, but you do it for free. It's just good to be associated with that man. He's a great guy. — Patrick Warburton
I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job. — William Petersen
Have pride and entertainment. I think that a lot bands just don't know how to do it anymore or they lost interest in it or don't care and are just cashing a paycheck. — John Seagall
Every day I spend in Hollywood I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck and I cannot imagine making a film that way. — Fede Alvarez
Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die). — Seth Godin
Two people can be work at the same job, side by side. One person is working just for a paycheck. Another is working to perfect their being. Some people think that the material world will make them happy. — Frederick Lenz
Payroll Quotes
A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll. — Prince
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. — Barack Obama
The revenue stream for Social Security benefits comes from payroll taxes, which are credited to the Social Security Trust Fund - accounting for the program's finances separately from the rest of the budget. — Jerome Powell
Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat! — Prince
Thanks to the central bank, most "monetary experts" and "leading macro-economists" can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists "explaining," like alchemists, how stones (paper) can be turned into bread (wealth). — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll. — Billy Corgan
Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll. — Dusty Baker
The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes. — John Shadegg
Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club's operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll. — Bud Selig
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending. — Mike Pence
Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue. — Mike Rowe
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. — Vincent Van Gogh
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? — Thomas Sowell
Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure. — Andrew Card
The secret to becoming financially free: Use your 9-5 paycheck to buy assets that pay you more income. Eventually, your assets will cover your expenses. — Jaspreet Singh
You can’t magic a new security agreement into existence. It needs to be backed with everything from treaties to funding to general strategy. Europe needs a new security architecture. That will not be produced by NATO bureaucrats worried mainly about their next paycheck. — Philip Pilkington
There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be. — Oprah Winfrey
My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family. — Candace Cameron
Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game. — Harvey Mackay
Your paycheck is not your employer's responsibility, it's your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do. — Jim Rohn
A network marketing business is based upon the leaders pulling people up, while a traditional corporate or government business is based upon only promoting a few and keeping the masses of employees content with a steady paycheck. — Robert Kiyosaki
I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks. — Wentworth Miller
Rather than risk starting their own businesses, most people seek safer environments, preferring job security to freedom and a steady paycheck to greater wealth. Their fear of failing is greater than the joy of freedom. — Robert Kiyosaki
Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker. — Mitt Romney
When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure. — Robert Kiyosaki
Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy. — Morgan Freeman
For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it. — Charles Jaffe
I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps. — Newt Gingrich
Saw that I could make more money in one pot than what was in that entire paycheck selling a week of office supplies — Doyle Brunson
We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support. — Barbara Sher
Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're screwing up. Your brain will lie to you. It loves the paycheck, it loves positive feedback. Your gut is under no obligation to make you feel good. — Sayings
I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian coworkers at 30 Rock, without whom Tracy would not have lines to say, clothes to wear, sets to stand on, scene partners to act with, or a printed-out paycheck from accounting to put in his pocket. — Tina Fey
President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history. — Newt Gingrich
They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration. — Wendie Malick
Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion. — Duke of Wellington
If you can create a career built on passion, your chances for success, fulfillment, and longevity are far greater than if you take any old job simply for the paycheck. — Katherine Schwarzenegger
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. — Mark Skousen
In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck. — Virgil Goode
The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it. — Howard Tayler
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