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Quotes About Compensation

The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.
~ Blake Griffin
We don't want to incent a guy to do things that hurt the team. They all maximize what they think they're being paid for.
~ Daryl Morey
I would love to see McDonald's pay more money.
~ Tom Douglas
I get paid to act. I've never acted free for anybody and I'd rather be rewarded than awarded.
~ Kay Kay Menon
Some of these parents in the basketball world want to be paid for their kids and want to be given this and given that. That's not what this is supposed to be. This is supposed to be about getting rewarded off of your hard work.
~ Jermaine O'Neal
I used to hate sampling, but it was basically because everyone was getting paid but us. But when they began to do the legislation and get it right, I realized that the kids just did something that, if maybe we were smart enough, we would have done it as well.
~ Betty Wright
I want to negotiate what I'm worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, 'This is what I'm owed now. Pay me.' And then we can talk.
~ Conor McGregor
The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
~ Gary Sheffield
My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.
~ Bob Diamond
Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
~ Martin Lewis Perl
If I'm going to hand over my classic Italian sports car, and you're going to be driving it down Pacific Coast Highway with the top down, while I watch, I want to be certain that I'm adequately compensated for the pain of that vision.
~ Gabe Kapler
I've never come out and said, 'I hold the most pay-per-view buys.' All I know is what I got paid, and I'm happy.
~ Brock Lesnar
Why work when you can fill out a few forms and get paid for doing nothing?
~ Alan Sugar
You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
~ Michael Caine
Actually, we got paid because the name Fortinet is so close to Fortnite, so I'm fine with their name being close to ours.
~ Ken Xie
The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.
~ Benjamin Tucker
I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.
~ David Storey
I never do anything for money; I get paid a lot of money as a by-product.
~ Alan Dershowitz
Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
~ Barry Ritholtz
Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic
If you're getting $80 a show, then you're not getting paid.
~ Cordae
I remember in a film of mine, though both my co-star and I were newcomers, he got far better paid than me. I was shocked and appalled. I actually asked him what different are you doing that you are getting better paid!
~ Aditi Rao Hydari
On my show, nobody's being paid more than me. I don't ask what they're being paid - I just make sure they're not getting more than me.
~ Noel Fielding
To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.
~ Randy Moss