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Quotes About Compensation

The one thing that holds consistent is - there's always going to be ups and downs in deals - but good players are going to get paid. Or good players with good agents.
~ Greg Hardy
One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it.
~ Ben E. King
Many people have said we just need to add more products. Look at Oracle, look at SAP. Add ERP and inventory or compensation. Add all this stuff. What we realized is we're the customer company. We're the front office solution, and our customers would be really upset if we just added a whole bunch of stuff and lost focus.
~ Parker Harris
The board gets upset because I won't take a raise, but I've got plenty of money.
~ John Schnatter
For those whose lives have been turned upside down by Chinese drywall, we're trying to give them a chance to seek justice.
~ Ted Deutch
I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.
~ Clara Barton
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
~ Bill Russell
If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?
~ George Carlin
You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.
~ Larry Winget
I think you pay people based on their work and not based on gender. It's that simple.
~ Stana Katic
I don't believe that everybody should be paid the same. I believe in equal pay for equal work.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.
~ Till Lindemann
There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.
~ David Graeber
I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.
~ Sam Ervin
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
~ Alexander Smith
People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
~ Armand Hammer
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
~ Elbert Hubbard
What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
~ Bill Goldberg
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
~ Samuel Johnson
Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.
~ Milton Berle
They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.
~ Bruce Vilanch
People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.
~ Dan Ariely
Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.
~ Jon Kyl
I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.
~ Frank Gehry