Quotes About Compensation

Like bankers, top footballers are massively overpaid, but at least you comprehend what they're doing for the money.

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

Everybody knows we make more money overseas.

But people never really "do as they're told." The difference between for-profit and volunteer organizations is that in the for-profit world people do get paid and so they are willing to give up some control to the boss, to accept at least some direction. But they don't give up all control. You couldn't pay them enough for that.

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

What is the impossibility that I am compensating for right now with my Winning Strategy?

In reality, wealth is measured by what one delivers, not how much effort it costs. If I paint someone's house, the owner shouldn't pay me extra for doing it with a toothbrush.

They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.

There's no art where there's no fee.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

The dollar that's being paid the players has hurt the game. The players take advantage of coaches. The players' attitude is, "I make more than you, so don't tell me what to do."

When it came to monetary compensation, we didn't hesitate to pay our leaders above market.

To attract and retain the very best, we also paid the best people what they would command at other companies for a bigger job. Why wait until someone else tried to steal them away before paying them what the market said they were worth?

When you ask leaders to do more, and they deliver over both the short and long term, leading to wins for shareholders and customers, then those leaders deserve higher than average compensation.

The aggregate of the compensation paid to mutual-fund managers virtually guarantees that investors fail to achieve market-beating results.

When you think that the eyes of your childhood dried at the sight of a piece of gingerbread, and that a plum cake was a compensation for the agony of parting with your mamma and sisters, oh my friend and brother, you need not be too confident of your own fine feelings.

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

A PRIZE is paid,some years after a PRICE was paid.

The love of nature comes with maturing years and is one of the few compensations for growing old.

Married life is full of these sacred hours, which perhaps owe their indefinable charm to some vague memory of a better world. A divine radiance surely shines upon them, the destined compensation for some portion of earth's sorrows, the solace which enables man to accept life. We seem to behold a vision of an enchanted universe, the great conception of its system widens out before our eyes, and social life pleads for its laws by bidding us look to the future.

The kid probably didn't realize that a white-collar worker could spend a whole day in his office doing nothing, literally sweet fuck-all, and still get paid for it.