“The difference between working for a salary and working for your promise land is that when you work for a salary, you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
For the record, my personal compensation for my work on the inauguration that I retained was $480,000. That number may seem like… — Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Copy Share Image
I explain the law of compensation like this: 'Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“A job pays you for what the role/designation does rather than for what you can do, which is why the compensation it… — Peter Tompkins Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think, people who remain in the political sphere as opposed to going into the private sector, really what they're looking at… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The CEO announces that the purpose of the firm is to improve the lives of the customers and the lives of the… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt,… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We… — Mary Schapiro Copy Share Image
Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many… — Billy Sheehan Copy Share Image
I think that the consumer is generally unaware of certain material facts, particularly the tax risk and compensation issues. — Ric Edelman Copy Share Image
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it; the surroundings limp. House walls get scars,… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“It’s ridiculous that they can keep receiving their compensation because they keep moving the numbers around.” The average full-time hourly Walmart employee… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis is not only bad… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
State and federal laws protect whistle-blowers, those who refuse to do something illegal, and workers who file claims for workers' compensation. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image