Christopher Voss Quotes

Salary negotiations shouldn't be limited to just salary. Salary pays your mortgage, but terms build your career.

Ambitious parents need more flexibility in how, where, and when they work, including the ability to work less or even not at all for a period. Equally important, they will need employers … who don’t view this kind of a zig-zag career path as a lack of commitment or professionalism.

Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that's fine.

I was always told as a kid the most important thing you could have was a job that paid you sick pay if you needed it and came with a bit of a pension.

What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.

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.

Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.

Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me.

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy.

I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.

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.

In September, I left the show. We were going through discussions and negotiations, and I had been on the show for about 11 years, and there were some things that I was asking for that I didn't feel were the moon or the stars.

I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.

We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.

There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.

In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.

If you want me in your film, do a favored-nation clause. Don't determine my worth based on what's left over.

I have a great job at a great company.

The benefits that were offered to me as a congressman don't even compare to the benefits that you get as a state employee.

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

My employees, there's no deductible in your health care. No deductible, absolutely not. You get paid sick days, as many as you need, personal days.

I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.

The ability of working class Americans to bargain for health coverage at work gave them access to the same basic packages of benefits as executive management teams.