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Quotes About Compensation

When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.
~ David Coverdale
I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.
~ Tyne Daly
The women tennis pros don't really want equal pay for equal work. They want equal pay for inferior work.
~ Stephen Moore
I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.
~ Marion Bartoli
I made $400.00 a week for my tenure at GLOW. I was there for about nine months.
~ Ivory
What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.
~ Christina Romer
Salary negotiations shouldn't be limited to just salary. Salary pays your mortgage, but terms build your career.
~ Christopher Voss
I was a terribly quiet, shy child. The comedy thing came when I was at university and I started doing stand-up, which I think was a belated compensation for all that time I spent hiding behind the couch.
~ Ardal O'Hanlon
There are some farmers who have been terribly discriminated against by the USDA. They've suffered tremendous losses and pain and anguish, and they deserve to be compensated.
~ Mike Espy
Why do you think the Divine is fair? In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is balanced with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run, and matters are often unjust there. The compensating forces of the universe make all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process.
~ Robert Silverberg
Don't be afraid to ask for a rise, Sagittarius. Your boss always pay you less than your work is actually worth!
~ Robert Stone
Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
~ Robertson Davies
Artists and whores, gold always bought them. An artist was no more than a whore who had been well-paid.
~ Robin Hobb
About $300 or $400 a month per child, depending on a couple of factors, like they get more if the child has special needs." Abby shrugged. "But the way I look at it, even if their motive is money, that doesn't mean they won't do a good job.
~ Lisa Scottoline
Justice didn't compensate for the loss of human life. Justice was an intellectual concept, inevitably trumped by emotion. Justice was the word we used when we couldn't have what we really wanted, which was everything back the way it was. Justice was only a consolation prize. She
~ Lisa Scottoline
My argument will have to be that the plaintiff, who's dead, wasn't going to earn that much, because, after all, he wasn't good enough to earn a promotion. And as far as pain and suffering, don't pay him for that because he died within a year, so he didn't suffer that long.
~ Lisa Scottoline
government finally made amends for its actions at Ruby Ridge.
~ Lou Michel
The services that the government provides to Indians might be likened to rent. The rent for use of the entire country of the United States.
~ Louise Erdrich
In fact, the bargain had been Carnegie's belated attempt to redress his own error.
~ Ron Chernow
He would compensate for his long absence by extravagant shows of generosity with his children.
~ Ron Chernow
Armed with this potent weapon, Rockefeller obtained such excellent railroad rates that it compensated for having to ship the crude oil to
~ Ron Chernow
Reasonably generous in wages, salaries, and pensions, he paid somewhat above the industry average.
~ Ron Chernow
if he failed to reach that level, Rockefeller would make up the difference.
~ Ron Chernow