#salary

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business. ↗

— Warren Spahn

#batters #business #figure #figures #games

When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#big #company #dream #figure #get

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#am #drawing #england #ever #gardener

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

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#actor #critic #i #mentions #movie

For Oakley, I'm basically a media vehicle for them to promote the product. For me, it's both, I get a salary from them, but I also get great products so it just kind of works, continues on. ↗

— Craig Kelly

#basically #both #continues #get #great

Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#better #better off #between #differentiate #electricity

There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now. ↗

— Bill Scott

#better #could #deal #doing #during