Quotes About Compensation

new Porsche, some cash, and no doubt a condo by the sea had been her payment. 

I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.

I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it.

With MTV2, every fighter is exposed to millions of people, and they won't have to take a monster pay cut to do so.

A lot of our contracts state that it is a 90-day credit period, but why? You work in any company, you get paid in a monthly basis. Why does an actor have to wait for 90-days?

I advocate that schools should put a value on what a scholarship is worth and then pay the athlete monthly.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

My father lost a lung in a chemical accident at General Motors, and after a while, he got a settlement that sort of changed all of our lives and moved us from, what we say, 'ashy to classy' in some aspects.

One of the reasons for paying people for their productivity, rather than their merits, is that productivity is far easier to determine than merit.

There was no point in trying to compensate for the crimes of the past, but "the nearest approach to justice to the negro for the past is to do him justice in the present."19 That meant integrating schools and ending legal barriers to employment and property ownership.

In short, every child develops in ways that best allow them to compensate for weakness; "a thousand talents and capabilities arise from our feelings of inadequacy," Adler noted.

One of the compensations for wearing a uniform and earning less money than an equally talented man can make in the real world is the off chance of being killed.

But each in its own way was affected by the growing intolerance of immoderate inequality, initiating public provision to compensate for private inadequacy.

When people stop moving in life, they stop getting these internal hits of feel-good chemicals. They have to start relying on other ways to artificially stimulate them, like video games, alcohol, smoking weed, social media, or watching porn. We get addicted to these things in a desperate attempt to compensate for the fact that we're not really living our lives.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

If such a compensatory move of the unconscious is not integrated into consciousness in an individual, it leads to a neurosis or even to a psychosis.

Experience alone does not entitle you to a raise, but seeking and communicating what your client values does.

If I were president? First thing I'd do is take care of the schoolteachers. I'm not saying we should start 'em out with six figures, but in some places they've got to be mother, father, brother, sister, and mentor. They're real important people. Let's give 'em a raise -- and attract the best people to the job.

Pensé que cualquier alegría de mi vida tenía que compensarla algo desagradable. Que quizás esto era una ley fatal.

La vida, hasta cuando la vemos mas negra, puede ofrecernos estas compensaciones lingüísticas capaces de arrancarnos una sonrisa momentánea.

My meaningless office job: they pay me for my body and mind, but my heart gets no paycheck and my soul pays the taxes.

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for.