Compensation Quotes

179 quotes by 154 authors

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm. — George Gissing
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness… — E. M. Forster
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre. — Elbert Hubbard
People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient. — David Rubenstein
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter… — Billy Gibbons
Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts. — Michael Enzi
Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation. — Irving Azoff
I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably. — Ronnie Dunn
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation. — Elton Gallegly
Tobacco, in its various forms, is one of the most mischievous of all drugs. There is perhaps no other drug which injures the body in… — John Harvey Kellogg
TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM spends an awful… — Edward Whitacre, Jr.
You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of… — Henry Hazlitt
I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation. — Pierre Dukan
The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it. — Seneca the Younger
It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present. — J. A. Spender
Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not… — Twyla Tharp
the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation. — Edgar Degas
The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas. — Warren Buffett
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles. — Paul Cezanne

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