Quotes About Reward

Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.

The day I do get my Roc Nation chain is going to be so much more valuable than if they gave it to me the day I signed. You have to earn it.

Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance with their value and merit. But a capitalist society does not satisfy the principle of distribution 'to each according to his merit or value.'

We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

The risk you are likely to be rewarded for taking is the risk of owning all stocks. In effect, rather than betting on one roll of the dice, one spin at the roulette wheel, or a single hand at the blackjack table, you can own the whole casino. You can do this effortlessly, cheaply, and reliably by buying a total stock-market index fund, a low-cost portfolio of all the stocks worth owning.

the best salespeople do not work for a salary but instead for a commission.

If you're a hero you can be an idiot, behave badly, ruin your personal life, have any number of mistresses and talk about yourself all the time, and nobody minds. Heroes are immune. They have wide shoulders and plenty of hair and wherever they go a crowd gathers. Mostly they enjoy the company of other men, although attractive women are part of their reward.

Gli animali che voi mangiate non sono quelli che ne divorano altri; voi non mangiate gli animali carnivori, bensì li utilizzate come modelli. Voi siete affamati unicamente delle creature dolci e gentili che non fanno alcun male a nessuno, che vi seguono, che vi servono, e che sono da voi divorate quale ricompensa ai servigi che vi rendono

Ultimately, if you are doing great work, the money will come.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

Everybody loves to show up at the party once all the hard work is done.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.

I think the reward for doing comedy is doing the comedy itself. You get to go to work everyday and laugh and make other people laugh and to me there's no greater reward than that.

All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit.

The only reason I work out is so I can eat more cheese.

You always get paid for how hard you work, but it's not always right away.