70 Quotes About Salary

Salaries are an important part of our lives, but it’s not always easy to know what we deserve. Salaries can mean different things depending on your industry and experience, as well as the company you work for. As such, there is a lot of misinformation out there about what you should be earning and what you should expect to get paid for your hard work. It’s not uncommon to hear people complain that they don’t make what they should and wonder if their employer is fair Read more

While it’s impossible to know exactly how much any employer is paying you, we’ve compiled a list of all the most famous salary quotes that can help you determine how much you should be making and setting expectations for your next raise.

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.
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Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily. Auliq Ice
There is a deeper satisfaction if you earn from your...
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There is a deeper satisfaction if you earn from your own work than relying on corruptible ways of amassing riches. Israelmore Ayivor
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If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is the sweat of the servants that make their...
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It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart. Amit Kalantri
We are generally treated based on how much or little...
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We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know–or seem to have, earn, or know. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin...
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Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an orgasm. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers,...
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If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors Nouman Ali Khan
Education is not merely meant for you to write and...
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Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival. Israelmore Ayivor
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Instead of you pouring out your life and giving out your life and exchanging it for a porridge called salary, instead of selling out your life bit by bit until you are old and empty and until you become so old that they send you off to die in retirement, you should come to the realization that you could actually multiply and reproduce your life through the power of time conversion. Sunday Adelaja
You cannot become great by working for salary.
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You cannot become great by working for salary. Sunday Adelaja
To work for salary is to mortgage your life.
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To work for salary is to mortgage your life. Sunday Adelaja
To work for salary is to give out your life...
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To work for salary is to give out your life for little compensation. Sunday Adelaja
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The difference between working for a salary and working for your promise land is that when you work for a salary, you are exchanging your life just for some porridge, some little compensation in the form of salary. Sunday Adelaja
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If you invest your life into yourself, you are not pouring your life out somewhere, to some job or for some salary, you are re-investing it into yourself. You are multiplying the quality of your life. Sunday Adelaja
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When you choose your own area of calling and purpose, and you are working and converting your life into that your area of calling, you are not being compensated with salary. You become the boss over your own life. Sunday Adelaja
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Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Job and salary is the greatest slavery you can ever...
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Job and salary is the greatest slavery you can ever set upon yourself Sunday Adelaja
Because he has finally realized that it is it and...
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Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Don’t reduce your impacts to match what you earn. Israelmore Ayivor
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The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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I have employed someone who earns money for me and does not charge anything. . i call it my corpus or nest egg. It is a beautiful feeling when your corpus earns money and beats your salary Manoj Arora
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It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make). Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We need money for daily living and upkeep. But money isn’t everything. Lailah Gifty Akita
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It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salaries might be better off with low salaries. A politician, or a minister, or a teacher is sure to be working sincerely and selflessly for the good of the people when through and through there is little monetary reward guaranteed. This is how the charlatans are weeded out of the field. Criss Jami
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A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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My men are my money. Amit Kalantri
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Providing employment is the best form of social service, as it serves you, others, your country, your world - the entire society. Amit Kalantri
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Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work. Carlos Roche
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Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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It’s unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers! Israelmore Ayivor
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A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee’s dream on hold. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Wealth is violent and uneasy to acquire, don't blow yourself by rushing. You won't find, you will only get lost on your way to find and you won't find it, Reserve yourself and wealth will find you. Auliq Ice
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Life ups the self-esteem of a low-paid man by giving him things that the high-paid man that he envies cannot buy (intellect, looks, sex appeal, etc.). Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time. Auliq Ice
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Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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If to love each other is the job, then the happy life is the salary. Toba Beta
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A salary does not make a person rich, but only gives him the opportunity to take care of hisneeds. It is not a means of becoming wealthy. It is a means of fulfilling our potential. Sunday Adelaja
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Employment is an employee’s kissing of an employer’s ass. A salary is the employer’s pretense to be cleaning his ass. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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He who makes $25, 000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100, 000 annually through a salary. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The difference between an Employer and an Employee is that as payday approaches, the Employee is full of hope and expectation while the Employer is full of fear and trepidation Ankala V Subbarao
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A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Make no mistake: Your salary is held to the same standards your grades were held to in the educational system, where you couldn't surpass a 100 no matter how hard you worked or how intelligent you were. Carlos Roche
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I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give - its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour. Charles Bukowski
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Some of today’s slaves sleep on king size beds. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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A diploma is a piece of paper that is used to acquire another piece of paper: an employment contract. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels. Sheryl Sandberg
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Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money. Auliq Ice
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No offense but a seller will say whatever it takes to sell a product but if you sum it up, it comes down to hard work. Auliq Ice
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You'll earn more money doing something you love, rather than just doing something because it pays you a high salary. Auliq Ice
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Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty. Auliq Ice
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It’s easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well. Auliq Ice
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Where there is less pain, there is also less pay. Auliq Ice
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Most employees don’t really want to be highly-paid; they just want to earn more than their peers, and, more importantly, more than their neighbours. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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This is an emotional request to the for-profit startups I help to build, strategize, and monetize. I do it for free because I care for you and your vision. I don't take an equity or a salary despite knowing that you and your investors will make money, and loads of it, eventually. I help because I care. Please remember, to pay back. Not to me, but to the world. Preferably, donate to a non-profit which will never receive the investments that you can and you are; donate to children and youth who want to do good things, to families that need you, to social startups that sweat day in and day out to bring smiles, and to anyone who cares for PEOPLE more than PROFITS. My salary will be drawn. I will be paid back in full. Thank you!. Sharad Vivek Sagar
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I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that. Marissa Mayer
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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
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We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom. Major Owens
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There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it. Drew Carey
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Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food. Joel Salatin
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I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary. Simon Cowell
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I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job. Nolan Ryan
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A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case. Brendan I. Koerner