Quotes About Compensation

I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me to write other people's ideas.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

We get paid way less than we deserve. We deliver shows and deserve to get paid more. We practically pay to do this. You deserve to get better paid if you sell the fight.

I ask for personal appearance fees because I've earned them. I deserve them. My presence at events is what they need, so they ought to pay for it.

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

I am pretty good at getting back people's money.

The Royal Ballet is the best paid company, but the dancers get nothing. The stage crew get paid three times more than the dancers, and they have a job for life - dancers only have 10 years.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

The library companies have made it so that music is so cheap to license. They do sound-alikes of every band, and it makes it harder for the actual bands to get any decent paychecks for licensing.

I never said I had to be the highest-paid defensive player. That really wasn't the most important thing.

I'm going to get paid what I deserve off of what I bring to the table.

I won't pay a guy money that I don't think he deserves.

TARP became so politicized that having money from it was almost like a scarlet letter. There were debates over compensation, worry that the rules were going to get changed. All the banks were desperately rushing to get that money back as soon as possible - in part, so they could pay themselves bonuses without any government restrictions.

If you want me in your film, do a favored-nation clause. Don't determine my worth based on what's left over.

My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not to give them less money. I'm happy to make them rich.

If you're making money, and you've hit your targets for five years, you don't need to demand a new contract.

With some of the samples that I chose to use, tracking down the person that owns the publishing has become a task.

I'd like to have had a bigger piece of Thanos than I do, but when the first 'Avengers' movie came out, Marvel and I - we renegotiated some things, so I get a taste out of this thing. I'm not becoming the next Bill Gates, but I'm getting a little something out of it.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

The IRS isn't the only agency using taxpayer dollars for big bonuses.

Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much.

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.