Paid Quotes · Page 39

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

— Marina Abramovic

As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.

— Peter Drucker

I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States…

— Albert Lee

I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where…

— Mark Romanek

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.

— Howard Stringer

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50…

— Pink

I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school.…

— Walter Dean Myers

Workplaces need to respond to the reality of family life in the 21st century, and allowing employees to have seven sick days…

— Rosa DeLauro

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret…

— Og Mandino

Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it…I personally know so…

— Sarah Kay

Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I would never play an extra year for money. I play the game because I love it. I just so happen to…

— Michael Jordan

As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV…

— Dan Quayle

Certain media-related developments in the country are raising questions regarding its objectivity and credibility. Paid news and the declining roles of the…

— Mohammad Hamid Ansari

All those people who went out [to Occupy Wall Street] missed work, didn't get paid. Those were individuals who were already feeling…

— Edward Snowden

There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is…

— Dick Morris

Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me…

— Thomas A. Edison

Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she…

— Deborah Smith

The script was classic Joe Eszterhas, intelligent, steamy and provocative. At one time, Eszterhas was Hollywood's highest paid writer, illiterate rock and…

— David Shuster

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise…

— Mark Twain

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and…

— Mae Jemison

That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.

— Eric Heisserer

I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I…

— Maya Angelou

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the…

— Enrico Colantoni

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little…

— Alice Mattison

I've twice accidentally stolen something, and both times I went back and paid for them when I realized I had done it.

— Katie Featherston

Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are…

— Ovid

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

— Lawrence Lessig

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Every moment spent in negativity is paid for with something truly priceless. That something is life.

— Ralph Marston

I like all the types of supposed work that I do. It's a privilege: I can't believe I get paid for it.

— Lucy Worsley

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

— Benjamin Tucker

I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for…

— John Hurt

It's almost ludicrous that I'm playing a game and getting paid for it. I'm just going to ride it as long as…

— Becky Sauerbrunn