James May Quotes

Signing bonus? Just give me a contract. I'll sign for free.

You've got to ask for more money.

Price doesn't make deals, and salary doesn't control your career.

Despite some of the stories that have gone around, I've never had a big, flouncey strop about how much I'm paid. Considering I have a pretty interesting life out of making telly, I'm really paid quite well for it. So I'm not complaining.

Everyone gets a raise when they do well. No one asked me what I got for my initial films. There was a time I got paid Rs. 6 lakh. I charge what producers are willing to pay me.

You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.

That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money.

I am interested in what I earn; I am interested in my growth.

I just like to work and get paid.

My agent makes 10% of what you make. When your agent tells you to take a vacation, you know you're exhausted.

In WCW, your future was determined by the time you signed the contract. I was the lowest-paid guy in the company at $75,000.

Football players value job security and stability as much anybody else.

Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that's fine.

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

I never said I had to be the highest-paid defensive player. That really wasn't the most important thing.

I've never had a huge contract.

I will happily work anywhere they need me to if they pay me well.

I'm really lucky to be in the TV industry and to have a regular yearly contract. That gives me security.

That's one of the reasons why I left WWE: not to feel tied up or pressured into fulfilling a certain number of work dates throughout the week or month - because of my injuries.

I play the same, contract or no contract, because trade-talk is part of basketball.

Most people see a job offer from Google as a victory, and I should have seen it that way. I should have at least seen the salary that way.

I could play for the worst team if they paid the most... If the last-place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.

I'm for creating high-paying jobs.