Quotes About Compensation

If this is their idea of making things even, they're working with the wrong set of scales.

Nobody gets paid what they think they're worth.

I don't think my story is an unusual story for a lot of music performers. But I think that since 1982, worldwide, I have probably seen less than 3,000 American dollars in royalties.

Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.

I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.

In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there's the least competition.

I don't think anyone's worth $100 million if Michael Jordan wasn't, but hey, that's what Abe Pollin thought I was worth, and if someone puts $100 million in front of you, you're gonna take it, too.

Are you asking for a raise? Do your research and know your market value. Having an informed sense of your worth, as dictated by the broader marketplace, will give you greater confidence in requesting increased compensation. It's tough to dispute someone who can back up her assertions with facts and a smart, articulate argument.

I could always fight overseas, but who wants to do that? They'd really have to make it worth my while.

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

I always tell guys to get paid what you are worth and know what you are worth so that if you are worth it, you will get that number.

When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse incentive to raise the stock price, particularly when the chief executive wants to exercise his own options.

They pay me way too much money but not enough as far as I'm concerned.

You get a lot of accommodations for being on scholarship, but there is too much money floating around in the NCAA to not be giving it to the people earning it.

Basically, I think that most people either make too much money or not enough money. The jobs that are essential and important pay too little, and those that are essentially managerial pay far too much.

Insurance brokers make way too much money for the value they provide.

If I meet Putin, I'll say to him: 'So you've finally given us back our territory, how much more are you ready to give as compensation money for taking away our land and helping those who took part in the escalation in Crimea and Donbass?'

Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.

We definitely have to take care of our teachers more. Raise the pay. Give them the tools they need.

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don't really give a toss whether they're playing or not because they're getting paid anyway.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

odat? eliberat de servitutile c?rnii, spiritul putea - prin efectul acestei misterioase compens?ri constante la to?i infirmii - sa ating? culmi neb?nuite, sa descopere ?i sa dezvolte mii de puteri atrofiate, pana atunci tasate ?i chircite în meandrele creierului ca ni?te crisalide ce a?teapt? sa se transforme.