Top 430 Pay Quotes

Rich people don’t pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes – they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn’t pay taxes.
Adam Carolla
If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.
John Lydon
I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn y

I was raised on, ‘You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.’
Matthew McConaughey
People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That’s why my fans identified with me.
Evel Knievel
I don’t pay much attention to career or what other people think. I’ve always been quite arrogant.
Ewan McGregor
If you’re dedicated, it’s going to pay off.
Hafthor Bjornsson
The poor pay more, and that’s one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
Elizabeth Warren
The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.
George Stephenson
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
Saint Augustine
Anyone who knows me back from when I was young knows me and my siblings supported Man United, we would pay to go and watch Man United play.
Odion Ighalo
When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.
Gladys Knight
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas Sowell
The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
Josh Billings
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
Edith Piaf
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
Frank Serpico
It’s not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.
Boris Johnson
Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
Ken Livingstone
Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
James Cook
I done paid Gunna to write my songs. I never put the songs out but like when I first started rapping I used to pay him like $100 like ‘I’ma give you a $100 write something for me so I can try to learn to go in and record it.’
Lil Baby
In today’s knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.
William J. Clinton
I’m a prize fighter. Titles don’t pay bills. I fight for money. I’m making money. They’re making money. Everybody’s making money. That’s what this is all about.
Brock Lesnar
If somebody comes along and says, ‘OK, Benny Hinn, I’m gonna help you financially so you can pay your own bills,’ or if I can do it on my own and get a job and do something on the side like I’m doing now, it would be a pleasure.
Benny Hinn
The best part is it’s a dream come true. I’ve always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it… it’s all good! I work long hours, but it’s amazing. They pay me. That’s amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain’t too bad.
Scott Foley
Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.
Akhenaton
There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
Orison Swett Marden
You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
Billy Sunday
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
Harry Browne
When you look at how much we spend on social programs in our country, it separates us from a lot of countries. In our country, if you’re hungry, we’ll feed you. If you’re homeless, we’ll house you. If you’re too poor to be sick, we’ll pay for your doctor. But all of that comes at a cost.
John Kennedy
You don’t know what hard times are, daddy. Hard times are when the textile workers around this country are out of work, they got 4 or 5 kids and can’t pay their wages, can’t buy their food. Hard times are when the autoworkers are out of work, and they tell ’em to go home.
Dusty Rhodes
You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.
Debra Messing
It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will Rogers
Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it’s no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won’t improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that’s led parents, students and educators to shout ‘Enough!’ all across the country.
Randi Weingarten
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William Bennett
If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.
Aaron Patzer
Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
P. J. O’Rourke
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
I’m very happy at Atletico. I’m very proud to play for these fans, with these players, and with this coach. I want to try and pay back the confidence and care that the people at Atletico have always shown me.
Antoine Griezmann
We don’t make movies for critics, since they don’t pay to see them anyhow.
Charles Bronson
It’s not selling out, necessarily, to do something to gain some kind of notoriety that gives you the cache to do be able to go and do something else that you want. There’s some dues that you just have to pay in life.
Ato Essandoh
When you’re on the road, fans pay to cheer on their team and boo the other team; that’s just part of it. That’s what they’re supposed to do. I expect it. I think everybody expects that.
Aaron Judge
I think I’m basically a liberal Conservative – I believe in low tax, spirit of free enterprise, and in making sure that we as politicians create the framework for business to produce the dosh that we’re going to need to pay for the poorest. And the longer I live, the more I think that we all have a duty to each other.
Boris Johnson
Freedom has a price. Most people aren’t willing to pay it.
Jack Kevorkian
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Despite probably needing one, I don’t have a therapist. Why spend the money on my mental health when I can do far more productive things such as purchase iPhone apps and pay off parking tickets?
Dan Levy
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Richard Bach
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
Charles Dickens
Stock market goes up or down, and you can’t adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment.
John Paulson
I’m a gay man, living an out life for a long time, and it’s tiring and anger-making to hear people continue to spit out the same old dreary cliches about the fact that gay men are doing something unnatural, and there’ll be a price to pay when the Rapture happens.
Clive Barker
She said ‘I’m by commission. You don’t have to pay anything until you sell anything.’ I said, ‘Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.’ I thought, ‘Boy, is she dumb.’
Amy Tan
Jealousy is unavoidable – it’s part of the price we pay for intimacy.
Rachel Simmons
My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn’t pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.
Leonard Cohen
The three ordinary things that we often don’t pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
Azim Premji
Our leaders pay lip service to the freedoms that democracy provides while actually supporting an economic structure that imprisons its citizens under more and more debt.
Jacque Fresco
When I pay attention to the little details, such as matching accessories to the entire outfit, I only get more confident on stage.
Jennie
The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.
Phil Collins
Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.
T. D. Jakes