Quotes About Compensation

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries.

I always want to make sure we protect our soldiers' pay if there is a shutdown of any kind.

I remember a song I did called 'If the Good Die Young' - I wanted to have a lead guitar solo on there, and the label flipped out! It was too rock and roll. They made us go back and put fiddle on the solo.

I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.

I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do is you tell them the truth of why you are breaking up with them, and after that, you somehow compensate with other things. If you have loved someone, I think that somehow they should always be a part of your life. I really do.

Do not try to compensate people for the love they show you. Rather, replicate the love.

Germany belonged, with Italy, to the so-called verspätete Nationen (late-coming nations), which sought to compensate for their delayed arrival in the game of imperialism.

what I would like is a raise.

Culture cannot compensate for lack of hard knowledge.

Don't you think I'm owed those lives?

As Upton Sinclair famously observed: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"36

All labor systems that depend on coercing a work force into accepting bad conditions and unfair compensation have recognized the effectiveness of keeping that work force exhausted to keep it from making trouble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson had this truth in mind when he said (in his essay on Compensation), "If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer

It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.

Better still, I pay you. And I pay you very well, which is the only real form of flattery in this whorish world.

An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect . . . He claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's as old as that saying, 'Tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack.

What a mess the world is in," cried the man, reading the news in his paper. "It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

Se conoce que, en las fases más avanzadas del cretinismo, la falta de ideas se compensa con el exceso de ideologías.

Cómo está el mundo —exclamó el hombre ante las noticias de su periódico—. Se conoce que, en las fases más avanzadas del cretinismo, la falta de ideas se compensa con el exceso de ideologías.

IF YOU WANT YOU'RE HOODY BACK, YOU'LL HAVE TO PAY! WAIT FOR MORE INSTRUCSHIONS.

Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

You might have been paid back enough to suit you I said, but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.