Joe DiMaggio Quotes

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.

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.

That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn't have done it without all the teams.

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

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 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.

Today, you hit .230, and you get a million and a half and think you're underpaid.

I think we're paid a going rate for how well our shows do.

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.

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

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.

When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. If I were to get paid a million, I'd feel that I should sweep out the stadium every night after I finished playing the game.

The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways.

I've never had a huge contract.

I want to be a Pittsburgh Steeler. I'm happy that I'm still a Pittsburgh Steeler. Hopefully we can work out a long-term deal, and I can be a Steeler for my entire career.

As footballers that's what we do when it comes to bonuses. we don't sit there and go 'yeah can I get £20million as a bonus.' You have to sit down, 'how much money does the club make, what's their reported loss.' You have to sit and go through it all and go OK, this is what you take, we feel that we should get that if we do this.

My first contract with WCW was, like, $70,000 a year. I didn't know you could make that kind of money doing this. I was like, 'Wow. I think I'm going to stick around for a long time.'

When I first signed a contract with a women's team, my contract stated that if I played, I would get 100 pounds, and if I didn't play, it would be zero.

Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.

Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. I make 50 cents for showing up, he liked to joke, and the other 50 cents is based on performance.

If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top.

I want to see more companies do profit-sharing. If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top.

(Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.

I love to play for Pittsburgh. If they can't afford me, then I'd love to play in L.A. or New York.