Compensation Quotes

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.

Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.

The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be.

We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time,... but we get paid for the value, not the time.

I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.

But I say to Apple with all due respect, we don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more.