Jim Carrey Quotes

I get paid to work; I don't pay to work.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

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.

Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?

I've never seen someone work for a salary.

It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.

It must pay to work!

I imagine there are some people who would work even if they received no remuneration at all. They would work for the pure joy in the work itself. But I also recognize the fact that there is a great deal of work which must of necessity be done because of the financial return it brings, even though the task is rather dull. It is this latter type of work that creates our difficulty. How to find an incentive that will make all people, regardless of the work which they do, work as hard as they can—because the world community profits by their work—is one of the problems of education which we are certainly far from solving.

When men are employed, they are best contented.

To wash dishes is not the same as a guy running a numerically-controlled machine. That guy running a numerically-controlled machine is going to get a higher level of pay because his training is higher, and he should get a higher level of pay.

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

The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called 'mate,' to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.

My husband and I work for a living.

American workers are the best in the world. They teach our children, care for our sick and elderly, build our communities, and much more.

I do what I do because I like doing it. I'm well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compared with what it's worth.

I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.

As I travel around the country, I am inspired by leaders who know that offering paid leave - whether sick time or family leave - isn't just the right thing to do: it's essential to building an economy that works for everyone.

A man's prime interest in life must be his work.

I feel like I've won every year the show has been picked up by Logo because, really, nothing beats a paycheck.

We earn enough here in Dortmund.

I got a job to do on the field.

Others may recognise their world in 'Eat Sleep Work Repeat'. This podcast is the side project of Bruce Daisley, who works at Twitter. It consists of him talking to experts about what makes us happy at work and why.