Julius Peppers Quotes

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

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

You've got to ask for more money.

Men, by and large, make more because of some of the things they do. Their jobs are, by and large, riskier. They don’t mind working nights and weekends. They don’t mind working overtime or outdoors.

It's just like any athlete, we all want a new contract. But I'm not going to stress over it. It's not the end of the world if I don't get it. If I get it, that's good.

I'm well rewarded for a job I massively enjoy doing. I think I'm paid very fairly.

We, as wrestlers, need to remember that this is a business. We started because we love the business, and we stay in it because we have a lot of passion for it, but you have to be rewarded for your work.

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.

I've reached a point in my career when I can demand certain conditions, and one of them is a weekend break every three weeks during the shoot.

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.

The family's first, and the career is second. I could get fired from a show. As long as everything's okay with my family, it really would not bother me.

If salary is your most important consideration, make sure you don't take too much time off beyond the allotted 12-14 weeks of maternity leave - and certainly don't leave altogether.

Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term.

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.