Quotes About Compensation

Ze [Florence Nightingale] organiseerde ontelbare pacifistische congressen en de triomf van haar leven was dat ze Alfred Nobel, de uitvinder van het dynamiet, zo op het geweten werkte dat hij als compensatie voor het onheil dat hij met zijn uitvinding van het dynamiet had aangericht, de Nobelprijs voor de vrede en een beter internationaal begrip instelde.

Women. They carried the whole world, one way or another, and they still felt like they weren't worth a hill of beans unless they got paid for their troubles. And troubles they had plenty of.

The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.

By identifying the money sources inside and outside of your business, and then applying these methods, you are better able to control the Flow in your business. But what are these sources? They include how you: Plan a project Buy materials Compensate your people Plan people's time Estimate a job Sell a job Manage a job Collect receivables

The obsession with quarterly earnings came about because personal compensation was increasingly tied to what happened to the share price. Improving market capitalization became the number one job for senior executives. Success would lead to personal wealth. Sadly

If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.

I'm not paying you for the player you used to be, I'm paying you for the player you are right now.

some broker somewhere took out a handsome fee for himself, without necessarily doing much work.

How about you keep the tens of millions you nearly prevented me from earning for you last year and we call it even?

When, a few months later, Goldman Sachs announced it was setting aside $542,000 per employee for the 2006 bonus pool, he wrote again: "As a former gas station attendant, parking lot attendant, medical resident and current Goldman Sachs screwee, I am offended." In

A trader who expects to be given a million-dollar bonus, and who further expects everyone else on his trading desk to be given million-dollar bonuses, will not maintain the same reference point if he learns that everyone else just received two million dollars. If he is then paid a million dollars, he is back in the domain of losses.

Wall Street paid the most for what I could do, which was nothing.

He laughed, but in the way people do who want to prove they get the joke. The Dutch do this a lot. They appear to live in terror of being mistaken for Germans, and to compensate by finding a funny side to life where none exists. Tell a Dutchman that your dog just died, and he will pretend that you have just made some impossibly witty remark.

From the point of view of a smart, talented person trying to decide whether to work for the U.S. government, the single most glaring defect was the absence of an upside. The jobs weren't well paid compared to their equivalents in the private sector. And the only time government employees were recognized was if they screwed up--in which case they often became the wrong kind of famous.

beer making, which began in earnest around the same time that farming did, helped the early agriculturists compensate for the decline in the nutritional quality of their diet as they turned from hunting and gathering a great many different foods to a monotonous diet of grains and tubers. The B vitamins and minerals in beer, for example, helped compensate for the loss of meat from their diet.

The most sincere form of flattery is money.

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

Who says I haggled for money? If directors like Yash Chopra promised me an amount for singing 'Tujhe dekha to yeh jana sanam' but back-tracked once the song was a huge hit, am I to blame for asking what was due to me?

I did albums for Cash Money. I didn't do singles - I did whole albums for Cash Money - and at the end of the day, I'm saying I wasn't paid for albums, so its like you're doing 10 songs, and somebody pays you for 1.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.

Love itself compensates for any diminishment.