Quotes About Compensation

Like it or not, at HP we are technologists, not executive compensation consultants.

I don't measure myself in my contract in terms of what I'm making.

If I didn't play the way how I played, I wouldn't have gotten no max contract.

I've never had a huge contract.

The grade contracts of a Test player should be the highest.

I would never say yes to a fight that would take me out of the title picture if I'm in it. If I did it, I'd want to be compensated. That's the important thing. If you ask me to do something like that, I need to be compensated correctly.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

Girl, it costs money to make content, so it should cost money to consume. If you want it, you should have to pay for it. That's life.

I have never been paid equally to my male counterparts, and it's mainly because of bankability.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

I'm fighting to get paid. I'm not doing this because I love the sport so much. I'm not a crazy person.

I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

Guys taking damage need to be compensated for the shortness of their career.

As more delivery systems for entertainment producers come on board, you have all these different formats where people are compensated.

I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.

Maybe UFC and Bellator should take care of the fighters when their careers are done, as the NFL takes care of their players. Because they're making so much money off us.

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.

I tried to make up for being 5 ft. 3 in. by affecting a strut and adopting the voice of a much bigger man... dating tall, beautiful women... But nothing I could do, after Ava had left me, would add a single inch to my height.

People often attempt to compensate for this loss of hope by comforting themselves with "consolation prizes": easy but self-destructive habits like too much TV, too much junk food, too much shopping, not enough exercise, endless video games. And sometimes they distract themselves with riskier behavior: alcohol and drugs, debt,

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him...A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Presently they came out. Excuse us, folks. Uh, Hazel? What is it, Cas? You said your fee was two-thirds of our net. Huh? Did your leg come away in my hand, chum? I wouldn't— Oh, no, we'd rather pay it. He reached out, dropped half a dozen small coins in her hand. There it is. She looked at it. This is two-thirds of all you made on the deal? After taxes. Of course, added Pollux, it wasn't a total loss. We had the use of the bicycles for a couple of hundred million miles.