Merit-Based Pay Quotes

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever.

The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner.

If we want politics to be the kind of arena where you're attracting and encouraging really competent people who do a job well because that's what they're supposed to do, then you have to pay them a salary that's commensurate with that.

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance.

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.

I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.

I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value

I never wanted to get paid by the hour. If I was going to do more work than another guy, I wanted to get paid more.

It didn't seem fair that no matter how many passes I caught or how many touchdowns I scored, I was considered a 'lowly tight end' and would never be paid anywhere close to a salary as high as the elite wide receivers.

I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome.

You get paid what you deserve, according to the money that your movie generates. I get much more than a lot of male directors and I also get less than some. But I get paid what I deserve and what I ask for.

There are remuneration packages that will no longer be tolerated because they bear no relation to merit. That those who create jobs and wealth may earn a lot of money is not shocking. But that those who contribute to destroying jobs and wealth also earn a lot of money is morally indefensible.

I believe in pay for performance.

Women play about twenty-five percent as good as men, so they should get about twenty-five percent of the money men get.

I hate tenure. Tenure allows teachers to put their feet up on the desk and possibly have a job forever. That's why I got turned on to charter schools. It's a business model. Every employee and every teacher will be monitored by performance.

I don't think bonuses are always bad.

To get paid the best, you must be the best.

This government has always said increasing pay is something for something.

I'm going to get paid what I deserve off of what I bring to the table.

We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.

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