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Quotes About Compensation

Tit for tat.
~ John Heywood
con la variedad compensó la incertidumbre.
~ John Katzenbach
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
thus it is that every man, in the state of nature, has a power to kill a murderer, both to deter others from doing the like injury, which no reparation can compensate
~ John Locke
Money would compensate for lost dreams.
~ Austin Wright
I think we're paid a going rate for how well our shows do.
~ Declan Donnelly
The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.
~ Mark Millar
We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies.
~ Mary Schapiro
People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.
~ Jonathan Frid
Its challenging getting people to pay the right money to eat really good food and finding great people to work for you.
~ Rick Stein
The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.
~ Daniel H. Pink
When I review my contract, it is to make sure that I am not going to get in trouble or not paid. Then afterward, people say, 'Did you make sure they gave you a green room,' and I'm like, 'No, I didn't get any of the cool stuff.'
~ Katie Nolan
For us, the conversation is always about getting paid what we feel like we're worth and getting paid as the sport grows and as we help grow the sport.
~ Megan Rapinoe
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
~ George Carlin
hard work is a misleading term. physical effort & long hours do not constitute hard work. hard work is when someone pays you to do something you'd rather not be doing. anytime you'd rather be doing something other than the thing you're doing...you're doing hard work.
~ George Carlin
a horsewhipping is not likely to be paid for with sugar-plums.
~ George Eliot
Legal redress is imperfect satisfaction for having one's head broken with a brickbat.
~ George Eliot
Pensions, even by those who advocate for them, are often framed as benefits—"extras" granted by an employer to the employed. Yet what is a pension, really? A pension is delayed payment for work already done.
~ George Lakoff
I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.
~ Dizzy Dean
I won every award you could win in television. I got paid well. And people loved '30 Rock'. And I loved '30 Rock'. I mean, sometimes you do a show that's a hit show, and you hate it.
~ Alec Baldwin
Most beginners who have learned the point system will only consider a sacrifice if it leads directly to checkmate or if the material can be won back by force. A Grandmaster, though, will frequently sacrifice for less tangible compensation, such as a lead in development or a superior pawn structure.
~ Daniel Naroditsky
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
~ Dee Dee Myers
We all know the principle that the polluter pays? Well one day I got to wondering why it is that the polluter seems to get away with it quite so often! Then it occurred to me that if the polluter is going to pay, somebody needs to tell him how much. The proper valuation of natural capital will enable us to say how much.
~ Barry Gardiner
Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.
~ Bobby Riggs