Pay Quotes - page 4

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend. (David Trimble)
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. View quote
Harold Geneen
I do not pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. View quote
Robert Bosch
We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time. View quote
David Dinkins
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. View quote
Frank Zappa
I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write. View quote
Leonard Cohen
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. View quote
Ayn Rand
The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. View quote
George Stephenson
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. (José Ortega y Gasset)
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil. View quote
David Ricardo
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. View quote
Ezra Pound
Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead. View quote
Raymond Chandler
PATRON One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery. View quote
Samuel Johnson
EXCISE, n.' A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles. View quote
Anne Bancroft
An early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today. (Martin Feldstein)
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. View quote
Emil Cioran
Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do. View quote
Jonas Salk
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation. View quote
Abigail Adams