Quotes About Reward

It takes remarkable patience to hold on to a stock in a company that excites you, but which everybody else seems to ignore. You begin to think everybody else is right and you are wrong. But where the fundamentals are promising, patience is often rewarded—Lukens stock went up sixfold in the fifteenth year, American Greetings was a sixbagger in six years, Angelica a sevenbagger in four, Brunswick a sixbagger in five, and SmithKline a threebagger in two.

We measure success and reward performance without knowing how governance and culture impact individuals and teams.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.

sort of like what Mom says marriage is like. She says it's like a job where you know the end product is worthwhile but sometimes you hate getting up early for it every day.

Seemingly irrational behavior can be understood as culturally acceptable attempts to secure reward or avoid punishment in the transcendental future.

At the end of my third year as a full-time student, when I won a $750 prize, I immediately went to a BMW motorcycle shop in the Eighties on the West Side and bought a used BMW R69 500-cc motorcycle, all black and, though used, in great shape.

Smallwood the Coalition candidate was returned; and the Imperialist of 27 October offered a £500 reward 'to any person furnishing evidence to support a successful petition under "The Corrupt Practices Act

It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long way back, and wrong rewards, And arrogant eternity.

Some of them are growing old, are worn with pitiless waves of fatigue, and are wholly unexpectant of reward in this world.

A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.

It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever.

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.

The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself.

In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

You have to be pretty selfless to have a child, who doesn't give a lot back to you.

We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I'll be able to appreciate the money we've made.

Sex is a slotmachine.

I would rather be responsible and accountable and help to reward the public shareholders going ahead.

I would love to have a Divas Money in the Bank. That would be cool.

The more you make an effort, the more life gives you things to be grateful for.

Anytime you get rewarded for all the work you put into this game, you're going to be happy about it.

As kids, my mom would always let us help bake, and if we behaved, we got to lick the beaters clean.