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Quotes About Pay

Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. I was too young for one war and too old for the next one. But I seen what come out of it. You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than they're worth. Ask them Gold Star mothers what they paid and what they got for it. You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)
~ Walt Whitman
Of Honor without Fame/Of Greatness without Splendor/Of Dignity without Pay);
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
SHALL this be a short or a long chapter?—This is a question in which you, gentle reader, have no vote, however much you may be interested in the consequences; just as probably you may (like myself) have nothing to do with the imposing a new tax, excepting the trifling circumstance of being obliged to pay it. More
~ Walter Scott
But here's the first clue: the male-female pay gap is not a gap between men and women; it is a gap between moms and dads. Or more precisely, between men and women's work-life decisions when they become moms and dads.
~ Warren Farrell
Well, certainly, it seems that an Officer of Volunteers has many responsibilities... all work and no pay...
~ Punch, 1890
If equal pay is that important to you, stay a single, unmarried woman. It's not the employer's responsibility to make up for the free choices of its employees made on the employees' free and private time.
~ Dana Loesch
I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.
~ Tibor Kalman
An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.
~ Richard Flanagan
Having a scriptable infrastructure requires upfront work but can pay huge dividends in bringing new engineers onto your infra team, as well as helping in disaster-recovery scenarios.
~ Mike Krieger
We need to pay attention to the whole space - every room, chair and table - so it feels uplifting and inspiring.
~ Miguel McKelvey
American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
~ Jim DeMint
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 don't believe that everybody should be paid the same. I believe in equal pay for equal work.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.
~ Mary Lee Settle
I have a magical work in a magical way. I give magical service for magical pay.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
You work, you get paid, you drink.
~ Bill Murray
Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.
~ Luis Gutierrez
People would pay money to work at CNN
~ Larry King
Women deserve equal pay for equal work.
~ Barack Obama
A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected.
~ Cullen Hightower
The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
~ Henry Ford