Quotes About Compensation

They pay me the big bucks to make the big plays.

The people at Columbia Pictures have been great, but I had to tell them, 'Please don't be nice to me. Just pay me.'

I pay myself three, three and half million - which is plenty of money, c'mon.

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

Mark Emmert, the head of the NCAA, makes millions. Coaches today are making millions. Who's not making anything? I don't want to hear about they get scholarships. Yeah, they get scholarships all right, they earn those scholarships.

Players and coaches alike, you sign up for 82 games. You get paid for 82.

If Congress can't get a budget passed when they're supposed to, it's just common sense they shouldn't get paid.

I do what I do because I like doing it. I'm well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compared with what it's worth.

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

There is no money in the world that would compensate me for writing a lousy book.

People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.

Economic liberalisation has seen a big and often well-deserved spurt in executive compensation, especially for professional managers.

If we want politics to be the kind of arena where you're attracting and encouraging really competent people who do a job well because that's what they're supposed to do, then you have to pay them a salary that's commensurate with that.

I have nothing to complain with the UFC because I get paid really well in the UFC. I think you're paid according to your work, and I think that's really cool. That's why I want to be fighting all the time, to show that I'm the best, that I'm evolving, because the more you show, the more you get paid.

I have no complaints except for the fact that I get very little time with my family. However, the happiness they feel every time they see me doing well compensates for everything.

I'd always been quite anxious and never felt very confident so I've always over-compensated.

Some Americans, like those working in government or nonprofits, know the consequences of having their salaries public.

The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.

I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone.

The people who come to work deserve to be paid properly, and there's no excuse. I could understand someone making a small error, but sometimes people make systematic errors, and that's not right.

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.