High Pay Quotes

I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees.

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

I value a buck, and when they're giving you $300,000 to lay down and look cute and pretty for a commercial in Korea, you gotta just go, 'Holy crap, this is unbelievable.'

I never asked to be the highest paid player in sports.

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

If you're a highly touted free agent, you're going to get paid a lot of money no matter where you go.

Free agency is free agency. I love when NBA players get paid.

I know that I have the skillset to be one of the highest-paid receivers. I'm just all about going out there and proving it.

I was a bellman - a great hotel, five-star hotel in Boston. I made great money. I made cash every day. I had good benefits. We had 401k. All the things you could ask for in a great job, I had. You know what I didn't have? I hated my job.

In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.

It's natural that you'd have more brains going into money management. There are so many huge incomes in money management and investment banking - it's like ants to sugar. There are huge incentives for a man to take up money management as opposed to, say, physics, and it's a lot easier.

At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a million a year in salary and bonus; after 10 years, you could expect a million or more. I had 60 grand of university debt, and my parents had no retirement. I needed that money.

Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.

At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.

If our American women are going to work to put food on the table and pay for the mortgage, then we better make sure that they get put into jobs that pay well and that pay their worth. That's why I'm such a huge advocate about computing jobs, because those are the jobs.

I got a job writing for a financial technology newsletter in Manhattan. I didn't even understand what I was writing about. The newsletter had, like, 2,000 subscribers, and it was $700 a year for a subscription.

All our businesses comprise of the BEST people money can buy. My policy is hire the best and pay them well

If you wanna make a lot of money, you should hire me.

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

I don't like reality television, but it pays so much money.

If one wants to get high paying jobs, one ought to depend on those who are in power.

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land their dream job. I turned down an offer to take a high-paying position in another field because it wouldn't fulfill me.