Quotes About Reward

Alas, investors and businesses are not paid in probabilities; they are paid in dollars. Accordingly, it is not how likely an event is to happen that matters, it is how much is made when it happens that should be the consideration. How frequent the profit is irrelevant; it is the magnitude of the outcomes that counts.

you are rewarded for perception, not results.

There seems to be no such thing as a foolish decision if it results in profits.

Sadly, it may be even worse for you to make $10 million, then lose back nine, than to making nothing at all! True, you may end up with a million (as compared to nothing), but it may be better had you got zilch. (This assumes, of course, that you care about financial rewards.)

It is the same logic reversal we saw earlier with the value of what we don't know; everybody knows that you need more prevention than treatment, but few reward acts of prevention. We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race (this may be curable to some extent); we are a very unfair one.

Who gets rewarded, the central banker who avoids a recession or the one who comes to "correct" his predecessors' faults and happens to be there during some economic recovery? Who is more valuable, the politician who avoids a war or the one who starts a new one (and is lucky enough to win)?

are supposedly underpaid because of their emotional reward from serving society.

So what counts is the payoff from success.

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible." "Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system." "This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing." "Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

Those who go the extra mile are rewarded.

volatility benefits managers since they only get one side of the payoffs.

In these professions, no matter how highly paid, your income is subject to gravity.

The world has a talent for rewarding bad behavior with stardom

There's a very old expression, Scythe Goddard told him. 'To be painless is to be gainless.

The world has a talent for rewarding bad behaviour with stardom

The decision tree lets you know that your expected payoff is far higher than what you are being asked to invest.

The ongoing, concerted effort he put into guiding Risa through her childhood had an unexpected and gratifying reward in his dealings with the women he saw from time to time. He

If it comes easy...Take it twice

new Porsche, some cash, and no doubt a condo by the sea had been her payment. 

If you want to experience the ultimate thrill, you have to be willing to pay the ultimate price."   —Big wave rider, Mark Foo

There's no magic in the location you pray. But Scripture does say to go into your inner room and pray in secret, and your heavenly Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. Get rid of any distractions, and focus your heart and mind on Him. Acknowledge that He is God and that you desperately need Him.

My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'

I found great rewards in cooking a dish and feeding it to someone. It was a means of communicating. I was giving part of my talent or my gift and sharing it with somebody, making somebody happy. And it gave a lot back to me, and I wanted to do more and more.

If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.