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Quotes About Compensation

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
~ Jason Alexander
One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.
~ William Feather
Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.
~ Martin Mull
Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.
~ Jim Hightower
When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.
~ Zig Ziglar
You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.
~ Gary Lineker
All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
~ Elbert Hubbard
S]ince humans find it hard to give up a pleasure already experienced, such a sacrifice might come easier if another pleasure was offered in replacement.
~ Peter Gay
A job pays you for what the role/designation does rather than for what you can do, which is why the compensation it pays doesn't justify your capabilities.
~ Unknown
The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.
~ David Gerrold
Without any shame, the colonies asked for assistance from the same Christian Indians they had persecuted during the first nine months of the war and received a positive response. The praying Indians, whatever their trepidation, saw this as an invaluable opportunity for their men to prove their worth to the English and secure compensation to ease the suffering of kin still held on Deer and Clark's Islands.
~ Unknown
Kat: You can't just buy me a guitar every time you mess up, you know. Pat: I know, but there's still drums, and a bass, and maybe even someday a tambourine.
~ David Levithan
An old notice was pasted to a wall beside the road: "Pay for field hands. Ninety sen a day, meals included. Women forty per cent less.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
You get paid what you deserve, according to the money that your movie generates. I get much more than a lot of male directors and I also get less than some. But I get paid what I deserve and what I ask for.
~ Farah Khan
I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.
~ Lyor Cohen
The two priests, the chorister, and the beadle came, and said and did as much as could be expected for seventy francs in an age when religion cannot afford to say prayers for nothing.
~ Honore de Balzac
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.
~ Horace Walpole
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
~ Ice Cube
There is a price for all things.
~ Conn Iggulden
There are some people who have had no pay rises for a very long time, and, working in highly skilled and highly responsible roles and in the health services and education, they deserve to be properly remunerated.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
Joe Biden abused the power of the Office of the Vice President, enabling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors, by allowing his son to influence the domestic policy of a foreign nation and accept various benefits - including financial compensation - from foreign nationals in exchange for certain favors.
~ Marjorie Taylor Greene
Letting the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund close is not an option.
~ Mikie Sherrill
Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.
~ Pat Roberts