I'm trying to set a good example. I don't need to take a high salary, which would impede the success of Morningstar.
I've never seen someone work for a salary.
Some people said, 'Why didn't you sign Peyton Manning?' Well, we just couldn't do it. We would have had to let go of two or three of our outstanding players to create enough room in the salary cap to do something with him.
The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after the season ended. Believing we had no choice, the players went on strike in August of 1994.
As I learned, like, each year, more and more, I face it as far as there's always something. There's always talk about something. Off the field or if it's on the field, it's age, it's my salary. It's always something, so I learned to kind of use that nowadays, it's like motivation.
What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.
I give a tenth of my salary to charity every month, so in terms of giving back, I do my best.
I don't talk about my salary.
There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 percent salary cut.
It would be bad for the squad if one player had a much higher salary than the rest.
I don't talk about my salary.
I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
Twice I had to sell my house to pay my employees' salary.
Although I was paid a salary in Ann Arbor, my wife and children and I drank powdered milk at six cents a quart instead of the stuff that came in bottles. I was a tightwad.
I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.
I have no salary from the Lugar Center. Essentially, the moneys we have received has been from foundations.
Growing up, I watched my single mother work hard to provide for her three kids. She raised us in a one-bathroom house on a public-school teacher's salary of $22,000 a year.
I've never seen someone work for a salary.