Bill Haslam Quotes

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

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

I'm for creating high-paying jobs.

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.

What we have is a pay structure that, on basic wages, is higher than market rate, as a general statement. When you look at other forms of retail, whether they be food or non-food, we pay more. If you look at our health care benefits, we pay a lot more.

I'm not in the type of work where you should rest.

Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

If you haven't gotten a raise in the past couple years for a job well done, it might be time to ask for one.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

I'm not looking for a paycheck.

Walk away from anyone who is unduly focused on vacation and compensation. It's a sign of potential trouble. No matter how talented you are, if you don't really want to work at TOMS, you'll never work out here.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

I've never seen someone work for a salary.

The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

My generation were all careerists.

For me, working is the ultimate vacation, for lack of a better word. Its being in-between jobs were it becomes emotional, and brutal, and draining.

It’s hard to have a better job than the government, where you really do have an opportunity to have a broad reaching impact. Very few private sector jobs are going to offer you that.

Japanese were too loyal to companies, and young people see what happened: the loyalty was wasted. They think: 'Look at Americans. They job hop. They seem to be free. That's the way we want to live.'

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.