Meaningful Quotes. Thoughtful Insights. Helpful Tools.
Advanced Search Options

Quotes about Compensation

The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.
- Roseanne Barr
The surest law in the world is the Law of Compensation. Its Justice works continually. If you do a Service you get back a Service. If you do Nothing you get back Nothing. Mere existence is not Living. Into your twenty-four hours put Work and Play and Rest, but at no time be a Bystander.
- Napoleon Hill
Make it your business to render more service and better service than that for which you are paid, and lo! before you realize what has happened, you will find that the world is willingly paying you for MORE THAN YOU DO!
- Napoleon Hill
Failure to honour God in the material realm cannot be compensated for by religiosity in the spiritual realm.
- Christopher Wright
Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of.
- Herman Melville
there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
- Herman Melville
The effect of reparations would be among the most devastating the country and the black community have ever experienced.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
Love itself compensates for any diminishment.
- Marianne Williamson
There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
- Herman Melville
And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
- Herman Melville
If you're on a contract at 'The New Yorker,' the contract specifies the number of words you will publish in the magazine per year. I get paid by the word, like most writers. That's one reason why the Scientology article was 25,000 words long!
- Lawrence Wright
Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.
- Mark Lanegan