Quotes About Compensation

he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying.

At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.

Always we desire too much or not enough and we compensate accordingly.

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis, for getting at least some form of compensation and closure for the horrors visited upon their families.

On a TV show, for instance, dancers have to be paid for a week and a half rehearsal time. So unless they're vital to a production, they're just not used.

It's vital that communities actually get something back in return for seeing their area developed.

I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.

I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.

When traders were able to earn a million dollars, of which base pay was $150,000 to $200,000 and the rest was bonus, they would go for it. Now if you're sitting there earning $600,000, you become less risk-seeking. And if you have less risk-seeking, the ability of the market to be incredibly volatile is increased.

When you spend a lot of time in your job, you realize you're just selling your time in exchange for money.

The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.

You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.

If you're doing the same work, you should get the same amount of money, and you should get the same respect. It's about valuation. It's about not being afraid to ask for those things.

So what was work? Tasks we performed for compensation in the service of an employer, be it an individual or a corporate entity. And yes, it was as exciting as it sounds. We didn't want to work. In fact, that's about as good a definition of work as you could have: that which we didn't want to do, but had to if we didn't want to eat dirt.

We've got to squash this dewy-eyed belief that people can be motivated by anything other than money.

I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.

Properly speaking, the liberal arts receive an honorarium, while servile work receives a wage.

And there is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unful-fillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.

Most people wander through life, carelessly taking whatever risk crosses their paths without compensation, but never consciously accepting extra risk to pick up the money and other good things lying all around them.

La gran masa de un pueblo no se compone de filósofos y es principalmente para las masas para quienes la fe constituye la única base de una ideología moral. Los diversos sustitutos no han probado su eficiencia ni su conveniencia, para que se hubiera podido ver en ellos una provechosa compensación de las creencias religiosas existentes.

If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.