Steve Jobs Quotes

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

Salaries should be set based on production and contributions, not positions.

I can make it very clear: I get paid if we make good investments. And if we don't, I don't get paid. I have no incentive to sell our companies to Google; the entrepreneurs get to decide that. We are minority shareholders.

Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there.

I believe in pay for performance.

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.

Treat each case as an individual case, and give every man an opportunity to earn just as much money as he is capable of earning.

I am one of the best, I should get paid like one of the best.

If you have a bonus scheme that is so complicated or so sensitive that you can't tell people what it is, then you shouldn't be doing it.

The only way to earn what you're really worth is to get paid based on your results.

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 am not a believer in large salaries. I hold that every man should be paid for personal production. Our big men at Bethlehem seldom get salaries of over one hundred dollars a week; but all of them receive bonuses computed entirely on the efficiencies and the economies registered in their departments.

The idea of a merit rating is alluring. The sound of the words captivates the imagination: pay for what you get; get what you pay for; motivate people to do their best, for their own good. ... The effect is exactly the opposite of what the words promise.

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

Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.

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

If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.

The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. At the same time, I realize that my success isn't just because of what I do out there.

The Dodgers told me a big bonus was no good, and they said other players would resent it. Better for me to take a small amount of money and work my way.

I think there needs to be modified penalties in training camp because there's severely modified compensation in training camp for all of us.

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.

If you want people to do something new, you have to make it rewarding for them creatively and financially.

I get paid by the fight, not by the minute.

Federal employees are not rewarded for performance or excellence or results but, rather, for showing up, and often times, they don't even do that.

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