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Quotes About Compensation

Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly's wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.
~ Steve Aylett
No CEO in the world, therefore, is so delusional as to expect his employees to show up every day and work hard for no money. But there is one gigantic workforce asked to do exactly that. In the United States alone, they number nearly 60 million. Who is this massive, underpaid throng? Schoolchildren.
~ Steven D. Levitt
cuando existe una gran cantidad de gente dispuesta a realizar un trabajo y capaz de hacerlo, por lo general éste no está bien remunerado. Ése es uno de los cuatro factores significativos que determinan un salario. Los otros tres son los conocimientos especializados que requiere un trabajo, lo desagradable que sea y la demanda de servicios que satisface.
~ Steven D. Levitt
when there are a lot of people willing and able to do a job, that job generally doesn't pay well. This is one of four meaningful factors that determine a wage. The others are the specialized skills a job requires, the unpleasantness of a job, and the demand for services that the job fulfills.
~ Steven D. Levitt
The Moralization Gap consists of complementary bargaining tactics in the negotiation for recompense between a victim and a perpetrator.
~ Steven Pinker
She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
~ H. L. Mencken
Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.
~ Vivian Gornick
I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.
~ Robert Breault
Today's Multiple Choice Thought There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in: a. the bedroom b. the nursery c. the garden
~ Robert Breault
If you lean too far in one direction, something else in you leans equally far in the other.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Everything does not have to be given away for free. But even a little unnecessary mystery goes a long way.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
The pleasure of travel - existing as it largely does only in recollection and almost never in the present, at the actual moment when it is taking place- Besides, he considered travel to be pointless, believing that the imagination could easily compensate for the vulgar reality of actual experience.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
Vice pays for its own freedom.
~ Jose Rizal
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
~ Joseph Campbell
Everyone has a price.
~ Joseph Delaney
It's the same affect of your mom putting on one of those flesh tone Band-Aids when you really wanted a hello Kitty one. It did the job, but that was about it
~ Erynn Mangum
Although a partner's compensation depends in large part on the amount of business he brings to the Firm, no one goes out to knock on doors. The Firm waits for the phone to ring.
~ Ethan M. Rasiel
If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.
~ Henry Rollins
Organizations relying upon young, idealistic, and mission-driven people to work at below-market compensation over the long-term will burn them out and find the best people leaving over time.
~ Andrew Yang
When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
The effect of reparations would be among the most devastating the country and the black community have ever experienced.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
I do think that some form of reparations for the descendants of American slavery would go a long way.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams