Activity Quote by Ben Hecht

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are…

— Ben Hecht

Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years,…

— Barry Schwartz

It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.

— Kevin Heffernan

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the…

— James Sinegal

Basically, I think that most people either make too much money or not enough money. The jobs that are essential and important pay too…

— Michael Dirda

In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.

— Karl Marx

“The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid.”

— Julie Rivkin

When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when…

— Henry Hazlitt

“Most employees don’t really want to be highly-paid; they just want to earn more than their peers, and, more importantly, more than their neighbours.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need…

— Akio Morita

If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than…

— Alfred Marshall