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Quotes About Pay

Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online - but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay.
~ Gene Wolfe
The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes.
~ Art Linkletter
It often occurs to me that this is a strange way to make a living. But it's wonderful, too. There are many ways to read maturity, and I'm not fighting the instinct to simply enjoy that kind of nonsense. I love that someone would pay me to draw on somebody else's bottom.
~ Greg Davies
I didn't want to keep fighting and risking injury to my body when the pay wasn't where I needed it to be. I made a strategic decision to give it up after I fought Tito. I always planned on coming back when the sport was able to right itself and had a brighter future.
~ Frank Shamrock
The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has.
~ Tim Harford
The old cliche must be up-dated: crime does not pay for the three victims of every crime-the victim, the tax-payer and the crook. Crime does pay, however, and handsomely, for the attorneys who produce the National Crime-Sin Show.
~ Timothy Leary
Why then should we form our political judgment on the basis of zero investment? We get what we pay for.
~ Timothy Snyder
Minimum wages tends to elicit minimum attention.
~ Toby Barlow
If you don't have a defense this league don't exist. So I feel like defensive players do need to kind of stand their ground to kind of show that we are just as important. You see all the offensive guys getting paid and we are just as important.
~ Bobby Wagner
My first contract I was offered by the UFC, or my second contract, it was 1-and-1, 2-and-2, 3-and-3. That's $12,000 for the year. Don't complain to me about fighter pay. It was $12,000 for a year, and it was exclusive.
~ Chuck Liddell
What I do now, when I'm taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness of the pay. I ask what they're offering me in comparison to the guy. I don't care about how much I get paid; I'm in an industry where we're overcompensated for the work we do.
~ Jessica Chastain
If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.
~ Richard John Neuhaus
They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.
~ Sharon Gless
to, for every man present appreciated precisely where that challenge was aimed. 'We all know how this works. No prey, no pay. Well we ain't going to get our hands on no prize stuck here like
~ Wilbur Smith
Those who desire immortality must pay for it with their lives.
~ Will Durant
Why were these giant projects so relatively common in Europe? He'd grown up with the unquestioned assumption that America was the home of heroic infrastructure, but was it, now? He didn't think so. How did they pay for these things here? Taxes?
~ William Gibson
So, while our focus will veer away from The Tipping Point's turf, we want to pay tribute to Gladwell for the word "stickiness." It stuck.
~ Chip Heath
We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear it firsthand?
~ Chris Heimerdinger
In the 1950s, U.S. employees nationwide paid collectively about 11 percent of their retirement costs. By the mid-2000s, they were paying 51 percent. Hundreds of billions of dollars in safety net costs were shifted from companies to employees without any offsetting real increase in the typical worker's pay. For ordinary Americans, the consequences were acute.
~ Hedrick Smith
It ought to be the employer's ambition as leader to pay than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman's ambition to make it possible
~ Henry Ford
If an employer urges men to do their best, and the men learn after a while that their best does not bring any reward, then they naturally drop back into "getting by." But if they see the fruits of hard work in their pay envelope—proof that harder work means higher pay—then also they begin to learn that they are a part of the business, and that its success depends on them and their success depends on it.
~ Henry Ford
I think it should not be otherwise in industry. The men are there to get the greatest possible amount of work done and to receive the highest possible pay. If each man were permitted to act in his own way, production would suffer and therefore pay would suffer. Any one who does not like to work in our way may always leave.
~ Henry Ford
The man who does not get a certain satisfaction out of his day's work is losing the best part of his pay.
~ Henry Ford
I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out.
~ Henry Rollins