Words matter. These are the best Paycheck Quotes from famous people such as Will Oldham, Wendy Whelan, Peter Fenton, Christopher Priest, Emory Cohen, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we’re engaging in piracy.
There are many ways to lead a life. It would always be ideal to have a paycheck coming in. But I really love this fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants approach. It’s scary and wonderful at the same time. I feel very open to many possibilities.
My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It’s a team model versus an individual model.
In comics, my experience has been mostly artists whose visual storytelling chops are either weak or they’re more invested in rushing to a paycheck than in doing work they can be proud of.
If I wanted to play it safe, I’d get a normal job with a secure paycheck.
The older you are when you buy an annuity, the shorter your life expectancy will be – so the greater a monthly paycheck the same sum of money will buy you. When interest rates are higher, the size of the paycheck for the same sum of money will rise also.
I don’t prefer much of film over stage… The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.
You got paid on Friday, go for a late-night poker game, and have no money on Saturday. But the RSC took your rent out of the paycheck, so at least you had a place to sleep.
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
We need to close the loopholes that allowed large corporations to abuse the Paycheck Protection Program.
There’s a couple of times that I did it for the… paycheck. Even when I was younger – I remember I did this movie that wasn’t good, called ‘1969.’ I totally did it ’cause I could get out of school.
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act will ensure that no pregnant woman is unfairly fired, or forced to risk the health of themselves or their pregnancy, to earn a paycheck. Our mothers deserve these federal protections.
Based on my own experience, when you’re going through adolescence you don’t know how the world works. You can’t set a story in the world you live in because you don’t know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.
Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.
Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It’s not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.
A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.
I’ve already composed and written a letter to the House administration telling them to withhold my paycheck in the event of a lapse of appropriations.
I’ll work with Jerry Seinfeld any day of the week. Get a nice little paycheck there, but you do it for free. It’s just good to be associated with that man. He’s a great guy.
When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.
George Jones, Johnny Paycheck all them dudes they’re respected and they were twice as crazy as I’ll ever be.
As long as it feels valid to me and feels sincere, I’ll do what I do under the moniker of Nine Inch Nails if it’s appropriate. I would hate to think I would ever be in a position where I’m faking it to get a paycheck.
A job provides so much more than a paycheck. It provides a sense of dignity and belonging. It gives you the opportunity to learn, grow, and be part of a team – or, in my case, part of a band.
I’m 37 years old and don’t have a steady paycheck.
My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it’s obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn’t always happen when you’re doing theater or movies.
The millennial generation and a growing number of employees are looking for more than just a paycheck. If a nonprofit could make that easy for me, they are doing me a favor. It’s not just a one-way value exchange; it is an internal morale building opportunity.
The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live paycheck to paycheck.
The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash the forces of job creation in America. The source of new jobs isn’t going to be the bureaucracies of Washington, but rather the creativity, ingenuity, and hard work of the American people.
No business is non-essential to those who rely on its paycheck for food, for supplies and for shelter.
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?
People call me Benny. And as long as they put Benedict on my paycheck, I don’t care.
My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‘Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.’
To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What’s new is the way it’s hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security.
The majority of people in this country, they live paycheck to paycheck. If we can, long-term, change that trend and make it so that investing and saving money, more broadly, is less of a chore and something that people actually want to do, that would be success to me.
You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.
I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account.
The best paycheck you can get as a producer and creator is when people are happy to be on the show.
That’s what we were exploring on ‘Larry Sanders’ – the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success – is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?
In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.
I never once had a regular paycheck. Not for more than six weeks in a row and for the most part not even that. I still haven’t. The notion of some whistling kid with a mail cart coming down the hall and handing me my weekly paycheck is something I’ve only seen in Matthew Broderick movies.
Getting a tax refund is nice, but having more money year-round is better. If you get a chunk of change from the IRS, you’re giving the government an interest-free loan – not something they, or any bank, would ever give you. Instead, change your withholding so you get a little extra in each paycheck.
My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he’d listen to a lot of music and the songs that he’d learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.
Acting has always been a strong force in my life, but it was hard to change direction. I didn’t make a paycheck for two years.
Automate your savings so that you have money taken directly from each paycheck and deposited into a 401(k) or other workplace retirement account. If that’s not an option, automatically have money transferred out of checking into savings each time you get paid.
It’s bizarre how the most powerful, moving things in the world, there’s no money. But that’s going to be the most uplifting thing in anyone’s life. There’s not going to be a paycheck.
The fate of your paycheck, the fate of your small business should not rest on what side of the bed a Washington bureaucrat wakes up on.
When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you.
They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
I don’t think music is my job – I don’t think about it that way, because I don’t really get paid. There’s no paycheck at the end; it’s more of a ‘whatever is left over’ kind of situation.
If I want to pad the record, just fight pretenders, get a quick paycheck and keep moving on and racking up wins, that’s not something I want to be known for.
No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.
I got my first big paycheck for ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding.’ This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesn’t happen like that anymore, but this was in the ’90s. It was the golden age!
