Quotes About Compensation

Obviously, I know there are players here who earn more than twice what I do. But that's not the issue for me.

I think women should be paid the same as men. That's for sure. But what would you say to a woman coming in after you've been in the job for 15 years when they've done absolutely nothing to earn it? I don't think that's right.

I've earned the right to be paid the highest in the league.

In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.

If you want a piece of my time, the work I've put in has earned me the right to get paid for the work I'm being asked to do.

The number one way to get trust back is to pay your employees well and get them to speak well about the company.

I believe in the need for paying for art. Free shows must not be encouraged.

Shoot, I ain't working for free. You can never have enough money.

Our union helps ensure that we earn fair pay and benefits.

I'm an entertainer, and I'm paid as an entertainer.

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.

But his compensation was the unique magnitude of his horizon. Compared with this vision, which Trotsky drew in his cell in the fortress, the political predictions made by his most illustrious and wisest contemporaries, including Lenin and Plekhanov, were timid or muddle-headed.

Pay? I've forgotten how!

They're getting all these young kids who work cheap and don't stick around long enough to vest, and even if they do vest, they don't have much equity to begin with. When you look at it that way, the perks seem pretty cheap.

Money is ultimately never enough compensation for investing one's time and energy. There must be a sense of purpose, meaning, and accomplishment.

suggested a "compensating fantasy" here that builds on Smith's arrest and trial in South Bainbridge

We've always taken the position that money is only something you can lose on," Cannon-Brookes told me. "If you don't pay enough, you can lose people. But beyond that, money is not a motivator.

But "as long as the task involved only mechanical skill, bonuses worked as they would be expected: the higher the pay, the better the performance."2

Policy makers and business leaders take note: money matters. But often the best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table—so that people can focus on the work rather than on the cash.

The best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table. But once we've cleared the table, carrots and sticks can achieve precisely the opposite of their intended aims.

The better strategy is to get compensation right—and then get it out of sight. Effective organizations compensate people in amounts and in ways that allow individuals to mostly forget about compensation and instead focus on the work itself.

The best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table.

If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way past any number of villages in its path; in India, if you want to widen a two-lane road, you could be tied up in court for a dozen years over compensation entitlements.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.