Quotes About Payment

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

For an investment banker, the choice between a payment that doubles with every square on the chessboard and one that doubles with every other square is more important than any other part of the contract. Who cares whether the payment is in pennies, pounds, or pesos?

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.

We authors certainly don't know what is going to happen to our books. Are they going to disappear into the ether, following music downloads, or are ebooks going to open up a whole new world of readers? And how much are we being paid per copy? We haven't a clue.

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.

A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.

When I was 18 years old, I had a Saturday job working in a clothing store on London's Bond Street. I would fold T-shirts for ten hours at a time and get paid £19 for the privilege.

The only way you can acquire anything is by writing a cheque. At the end of the day you're writing a personal cheque, which tends to concentrate the mind.

When I was a student in Kazakhstan University, I did not have access to any research papers. These papers I needed for my research project. Payment of 32 dollars is just insane when you need to skim or read tens or hundreds of these papers to do research. I obtained these papers by pirating them.

Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.

Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.

Y él debía seiscientos pesos con siete centavos!

Yo era la que veía el pasado y las que ven el pasado nunca pagan. También veía el futuro y ésas sí que pagan un precio elevado, en ocasiones el precio es la vida o la cordura.

Never," said Kareen with passion, "ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted

I don't need you to make allowances for anything. Damn her pride. If you can stand to pay for it, then I can wear it. His brow arched. Don't let your mouth write checks your body can't cash, sweetheart. Because trust me, I know exactly how to dress a woman for prime impact.

Will I write a check or would you prefer payment in Standard Oil shares?

But few companies followed the lead of Clark, Payne and invested in Standard Oil instead of taking payment.

He wanted payment in bonds, not watered stock. When

Rockefeller paid the market price, roughly equivalent to what he paid his Standard colleagues for their stock that month.

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, no matter how trifling the cost. For the end of that game is oppression and shame and the nation that plays it is lost!

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments everyday.