Blake Griffin Quotes

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

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.

I always tell guys to get paid what you are worth and know what you are worth so that if you are worth it, you will get that number.

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.

There are some people who have had no pay rises for a very long time, and, working in highly skilled and highly responsible roles and in the health services and education, they deserve to be properly remunerated.

What Is a Good Job? It is a job for which the worker is qualified and for which he has been prepared. It is one which will not enslave him for life, but which shall employ him for as long a time as he needs it in order to win his own economic safety for life. It is one which will reward him lavishly — not in wages or in any form of money payments since money is far too unstable a medium for such purposes — but it shall reward him with due amounts of the actual things and services which he requires in the carrying on of his daily existence.

I want to negotiate what I'm worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, 'This is what I'm owed now. Pay me.' And then we can talk.

To force a change, sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you're worth - rather than what your employer is paying you.

I'm going to do my very best to ensure that our jobs are all market-competitive.

I want to be compensated. If I'm working at the post office, and I'm sorting the same mail as the person to the right, and they're making $25 an hour and I'm making $21, I need to know what is this person doing so much better that he's getting $4 more than me. That's just knowing the market and being a smart businessman.

The amount of work we have to do to get to that Octagon, we should be getting paid what we're worth.

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.

I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace.

I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.

Pay equity matters because those dollars add up over time.

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

I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of cooking. Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility.

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

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

I want to get paid for my services.

Just pay my what I'm worth. I'm a fair guy, I'm not asking more than what I'm worth.

I think all of us want to work and get paid what we are worth.

Shoot, I ain't working for free. You can never have enough money.

As long as somebody 'CTC,' at the end of the day I'm with them. For all you that don't know what CTC means, that's 'Cut The Check.'