Top 100 Quotes About Compensation
#1. And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.
Bel Kaufman
#2. The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. I was in shock. Funny how the world works. You don't get the something you really covet, but then the universe provides unexpected compensation. Here I thought you had to make a wish for it to come true.
Sarah Dessen
#4. When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.
Teresa Amabile
#6. Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don't like to put up with that level of insane unless there's some kind of high-calorie compensation.
Lauren Beukes
#7. The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.
Francis Harold Cook
#8. An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.
Theodor Mommsen
#9. When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.
Marianne Williamson
#10. I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#11. The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve
Agona Apell
#12. Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.
Simon Mainwaring
#13. America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.
Bill Johnson
#14. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
Roald Dahl
#15. If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
Max Nordau
#16. The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence.
Peter Blegvad
#17. Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.
Jesse D. Jennings
#18. If you think equality will stop the fighting, you're deluding yourself! If everyone receives the same compensation, they will stop working for it, which will lead to the weakening of our nation! The only result will be conflict born from poverty!
Adachitoka
#20. It is well known that large numbers of poor people attribute their poverty to what they call the tyranny of capital; meaning thereby the unwillingness of the owners of capital to allow others to use it without security for its safe return and compensation for its use.
Frederic Bastiat
#21. The essence of proper bond selection consists, ... in obtaining specific and convincing factors of safety in compensation for the surrender of participation in profits.
Benjamin Graham
#22. The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. A loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.
Dodie Smith
#24. To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things ...
Muriel Barbery
#25. No collection without compensation.
Jeff Rich
#26. You can draw!" I exclaimed.
"Yeah," his voice echoed from the kitchen.
"I mean really draw [ ... ]"
"I told you I would major in art, hypothetically."
"Yeah, but I thought the bullshit you fed me about lifting up the human spirit was compensation for not being able to draw.
Jennifer Echols
#27. When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things - as opposed to making things up - that did not quite happen.
Geoff Dyer
#28. To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.
Marianne Williamson
#30. When a portion of wealth passes out of the hands of him who has acquired it, without his consent, and without compensation, to him who has not created it, whether by force or by artifice, I say that property is violated, that plunder is perpetrated.
Frederic Bastiat
#31. There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis, for getting at least some form of compensation and closure for the horrors visited upon their families.
Alex Shoumatoff
#32. There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered itself to her, and then forever passed her by.
George Eliot
#33. The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#34. These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.
Bill Moyers
#35. We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.
Marianne Williamson
#37. The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn't about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a 'public purpose.'
Michael Kinsley
#38. Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.
Cary Grant
#39. This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.
Marilynne Robinson
#40. He already knew that life was largely illusion, that though wonderful things could happen, nevertheless as many disappointments came in compensation: and he knew, too, that life could offer a quality even worse - the probability that nothing would happen at all.
William Sansom
#41. Walk away from anyone who is unduly focused on vacation and compensation. It's a sign of potential trouble. No matter how talented you are, if you don't really want to work at TOMS, you'll never work out here.
Blake Mycoskie
#42. When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse incentive to raise the stock price, particularly when the chief executive wants to exercise his own options.
George Akerlof
#43. Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality
Alan D. Eames
#44. I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide
the reasons, that is, why I still find existence enough of a compensation to atone for its dominantly burthensome quality.
H.P. Lovecraft
#45. Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.
James Anthony Froude
#46. You probably can't be the Google of 2014 in terms of compensation or perks, but you can be like the Google of 1999 if you already have good answers about your mission and team.
Peter Thiel
#47. A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.
James Surowiecki
#48. We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.
John Stossel
#49. The kind of face that commanded compensation simply for existing.
M.K. Schiller
#50. and if they were both outcast for the same reason, they might at least have the pleasure of each other's society for compensation.
Naomi Novik
#52. There is always compensation for your troubles; you will be given when you need the most.
M.F. Moonzajer
#53. Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.
Alexander Hamilton
#54. Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness.
Hanif Kureishi
#55. In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
Baron De Montesquieu
#56. The women have to suffer due to nature without compensation or an indemnity.
Aporva Kala
#57. With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#58. 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
#59. We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.
Alexander McCall Smith
#60. The great irony of executive compensation is, if you pay your employees more, you're gonna create more demand for your goods and services! Which is gonna lead to more executive compensation than if you pay your employees less and try to take all the cream off of the top.
Anthony Scaramucci
#61. Executive compensation dipped during the financial crisis, but it has risen briskly since, and is now higher than it's ever been.
Anonymous
#62. 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 in life.
E. M. Forster
#63. According to a 2007 assessment by Salary, the domestic labor of a woman who stays home to care for her children is worth an impressive $138,095 a year. (That's a three-percent raise from the $134,121 "earned" the year before.) By the way, that salary is compensation for a 91.6-hour work week,
Melissa Stanton
#64. Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.
Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#66. As we look for humor, seek for the eternal perspective, understnd the principle of compensation, and draw near to our Heavenly Father, we can endure heardship and trial.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#67. Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
Otto Von Bismarck
#68. 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
#69. Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.
Laura Riding
#70. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
#71. Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.
Charles F. Haanel
#72. What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.
Haruki Murakami
#73. A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.
Chuck Berry
#74. Would we, if we could, educate and sophisticate pigs, geese, cattle? Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relation with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation? I think we're property.
Whitley Strieber
#75. The things that churned inside Daredevil were deeply religious, somewhat guilt-driven traces of the messianic, with his powers being a compensation for and driven by the vulnerability of being blind. Green Arrow is not driven by dark forces.
Ann Nocenti
#76. Proposed as appropriate compensation. This reminds me
Jared Diamond
#77. Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
Boris Spassky
#78. Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.
Michael Bennet
#79. When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it
without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud
to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed.
Frederic Bastiat
#80. As you grow, it feels hopelessly corporate but it really is worth putting in place these compensation bands.
Sam Altman
#81. I added that it was no fun to grow old, but that the compensation for it was that time turned your mental shit-detector into a highly calibrated instrument.
Paul Theroux
#82. Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.
Cynthia McKinney
#83. In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer talented people. It is likely to change the culture of an industry that for nearly a century has been the money center of the world.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#84. We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
William Barclay
#85. But a patent is not a hunting license. Is it not a reward for the search, but compensation for its successful conclusion
Martin J. Adelman
#86. wonder adults were always miserable. A paycheck was just a bit of compensation for putting up with bullshit.
Kelly Oxford
#87. This book is dedicated to teachers. They are in the trenches every day without adequate compensation or support. I'll I can say is, "Thank you one and all.
Andrew Sutherland
#89. 888-838-7727. Part II: A Healthy Look at Medical Care and Compensation Programs
Rod Powers
#90. the sales compensation plan is Batman, the sales contest is Robin.
Mark Roberge
#91. This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln
#92. The quality of goods and services are always viewed as more important than the compensation.
Sunday Adelaja
#93. So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.
Mark Levin
#94. Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.
Sangharakshita
#95. Though monetary compensation may never add up, teachers can rest assured that they are important.
Monica Johnson
#96. With every disaster, I have come to believe for my own personal reasons, comes a compensation, a certain balancing of the accounts - not spread evenly about but clumped here and there, of benefit to very few.
Brian Evenson
#98. All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.
Newt Gingrich
#99. Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets BP rather than other companies? I don't think that - would be right.
David Cameron
#100. But if I accept these conditions," said Fosti, "what shall be the compensation of the king of Norway, my ally 'i" " Seven feet of English land," answered the envoy; "or, as Hardrada is a giant, perhaps a little more.
Walter Scott
