(206 quotes found)
“Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.”
Al Spalding
“Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career”
Bill Vaughn
“GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attended upon Venus, serving without salary. They were at no expense for board and clothing, for they ate nothing to speak of and dressed according to the weather, wearing whatever breeze happened to be blowing.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.”
Warren Spahn
“It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.”
Charles A. Jaffe
“I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has got some things going for it.”
Bruce Dickinson
“It's our theory that everything trickles down from there, ... That if you have high salaries, good conditions, you have good support. You have a lot of communication between teachers, you pay for teachers' supplemental training, and the students learn.”
Dave Eggers
“Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?”
Nicole Kidman
“Starting in 2004, we started to see salaries rise again. In 2002 and 2003 we saw a lot of decreases because of the economy, but it's really good news that we're continuing to see increases.”
Andrea Koncz
“In terms of the effect of, for lack of a better term, capping minor-league salaries at $75,000, that was clearly not the intent of the provision but I suppose I'm not surprised by the impact of the provision,”
Bill Daly
