Quotes About Compensation

Humanity is so adaptable [...] Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Humanity is so adaptable, my mother would say. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

If I was going to do something I didn't want to do, I at least wanted to be remunerated for it.

Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

I explain the law of compensation like this: 'Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time'.

I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.

I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.

Yo, como tú, ansío tener un poco de aire y de libertad, pero creo que nos han dado compensación de sobra por estas carencias. Quiero decir, compensación por dentro.

No había día del juicio, no había una explicación final, no había ningún momento luminoso en el cual todos los terribles errores cometidos fueran corregidos y todos los horrores fueran compensados. Las brujas quemadas en la hoguera no serían vengadas jamás. ¡Nadie iba a decirnos nunca nada!

A deep and enduring economic crisis like the Great Depression of the 1930s, or a natural disaster that kills tens of thousands of people, might change America's fundamental calculus about economic justice. Until then, the American public will probably continue to refrain from broadly challenging both male and female corporate leaders who compensate themselves far in excess of their value to society. That

Do extremely difficult work. That seems obvious, right? If you do something that's valued but scarce because it's difficult, you're more likely to be in demand and to be compensated fairly for what you do. The implication is stunning, though: When designing a project or developing a skill, seek out the most difficult parts to master and contribute. If it's easy, it's not for you.

If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take. When you lead without compensation, when you sacrifice without guarantees, when you take risks because you believe, then you are demonstrating your faith in the tribe and its mission. Of course it's difficult. But leaders will tell you that it's worth it.

Jack Good's contract at Virginia Tech stipulated that he would always be paid $1 more than the football coach.

I have touched upon how well compensated British bureaucrats in India were, but what made things worse was how imbalanced their salaries were when compared with their local counterparts. In the first decades of the twentieth century, J. T. Sunderland observed that the difference in salaries and emoluments was so great that 8,000 British officers earned £13,930,554, while 130,000 Indians in government service were collectively paid a total of £3,284,163.

it is striking that when slavery was abolished, the British government paid compensation, not to the men and women so inhumanely pressed into bondage, but to their former owners, for their 'loss of property'!)

For better or worse, civil litigation is generally driven by economics. If somebody thinks they've been wronged, they go to court and ask for money.

F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.

Dear friends, I am often a lonely man, Even in a room full of people who love me. Dear friends, my brain-- Unpredictable as it was--is even more unpredictable now. But thank God for all of the ways in which we compensate. For our deficiencies.

But God has a way of making things even out, I guess.

That's not fair. (Talon) I'm not paid to be fair. I'm paid to kick Daimon ass. (Acheron)

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.