Payoff Quotes
72 quotes by 68 authors
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Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating,…
— Scott Adams
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If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.
— Jon Rappoport
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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is…
— Anne Lamott
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Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years…
— E F Schumacher
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The growth of a nation's productive potential is the central factor in determining its growth in real wages and living standards.... high rates of investment…
— Paul Samuelson
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Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
— Bobby Flay
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You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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But we go out as a band because we enjoy each others company, first of all. And its the payoff for me, to go out…
— Peter Frampton
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It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of…
— Thurston Moore
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The message I got from my father was that life is hard, but you just don't quit. I am grateful that I didn't let fear…
— Mariska Hargitay
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My dogs are a priority and a big responsibility... but the payoffs are well worth it
— Will Estes
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Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming…
— Denis Waitley
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The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. . . . Not doing right may have momentary payoffs…
— Laura Schlessinger
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Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whole value is…
— Warren Buffett
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Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books,…
— Ralph Nader
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Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph…
— Ada Louise Huxtable
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It is the love that we give and the service we render that really is the great payoff.
— David B. Haight
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Killing is the payoff of war.
— Morley Safer
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As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that are fun. It's…
— Malcolm Forbes
Who Wrote These Payoff Quotes
68 authors contributed a total of 72 Payoff Quotes, led by these top contributors: