Salary Negotiation Quotes

If you're making money, and you've hit your targets for five years, you don't need to demand a new contract.

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

I've been offered a few professional contracts... in the hundreds and thousands.

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.

I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.

When it comes to salary negotiation, don't forget that salary is only one term of employment. What else is on the table - vacation time, benefits, bonuses, flex days? Before determining that these terms are 'must-haves' or 'giveaways' to get a bigger salary, find out what the counterpart has to offer.

Not a penny off the pay, not a second on the day.

I went to Villarreal for 30% less than I could have earned in Mexico.

I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

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.

I think I'm wealthy. I make a good living for what I do. Well, it depends. If I'm doing an independent film I'm making no money - probably losing money. But if I'm doing a studio film, I'll make a decent wage. I can live for a year without working.

They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.

You have to be competitive in the job I am in.

There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

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.

If you are good enough to compete for a top-level corporate job, you should be smart enough to know what the job pays the other gender and negotiate accordingly. If you are an employer, and you don't pay an employee market wages, regardless of gender or orientation, you will end up with what you deserve.

And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we had to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.

If you're doing the same work, you should get the same amount of money, and you should get the same respect. It's about valuation. It's about not being afraid to ask for those things.

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.

In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

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

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