Quotes About Compensation

Forced to reconsider, Rockefeller evidently came up with a large enough bonus, although Gates never revealed the exact amount.

He wanted payment in bonds, not watered stock. When

When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue. The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke.

People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as compensation.

The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.

Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think it's a sort of compensation for having been born. 'There are no strings on me!' They sang; but I, pinnoccio, saw the strings. Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.

El hecho de estar vivo te compensa de lo que te hace la vida.

but something was given in exchange for what was lost

El hecho de estar vivo te compensa de las cosas que te hace la vida.

After clearing away innumerable dog-hairs, swatting countless fleas and extracting from the carpet the remnants of a shattered glass eye, she protested to the University's comptroller of works that, if this sort of thing was going to keep happening, she deserved a small pay raise.

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.

human justice is sadly lacking in consolation; it can only sheed blood in exchange for blood.

you compensate for your mistakes in so gentlemanly a way, that one almost feels obliged to you for having committed them.

Moi, j'ai déjà prévenu Ronsard de venir me rejoindre; et là, tous les deux loin du bruit, loin du monde, loin des méchants, sous nos grands bois, aux bords de la rivière, au murmure des ruisseaux, nous parlerons des choses de Dieu, seule compensation qu'il y ait en ce monde aux choses des hommes.

Observe this fact: in the history of mankind, every ruler who has lacked personal greatness has been forced to compensate for the deficiency by setting up the executioner at his right hand like a guardian angel

Minden varázslatnak ára van, és azt senki sem fizeti meg szívesen.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

Politicians cover their mistakes with money; cooks cover their mistakes with mayonnaise; doctors cover theirs with dirt.

in damages to the families of the American victims. Yet

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

There's no way a fighter should fight and put his life on the line, and a promoter makes more money than he makes.

The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.