Jim Rohn Quotes

The board gets upset because I won't take a raise, but I've got plenty of money.

You've got to ask for more money.

It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?

It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.

Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we had to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.

Labor cannot on any terms surrender the right to strike.

Thank God we have a system of labor where there can be a strike.

The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish.

I've got no problem making 125.

We like to think that people have to work for their money.

I make a lot of money, but I need to be treated right.

Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.

Interesting thing about being rich is once you pay your taxes, you're still rich.

You will not be a chip the richer.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.

Hollywood called me, asking me, "How much to do a movie with Farrah Fawcett?" "$50,000" They called back, "How about $20,000?" I said, "I'll pay it!"

If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.

I want to get rich and die old.