Pay Quotes - Page 59

Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.

The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.

The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.

The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

Success is not something you own; it's something you rent, and the rent is due every day. When you stop paying rent on success, you start paying the rent on failure.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new businesses makes painfully clear that there is nothing inevitable about the money coming back.

There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Patience Pays..Is true! But the greater truth is that it takes advance payment before it pays you in return!

Some things it don't pay to be curious about.

Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.

I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.

We have reason to feel good, but it's also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn't happen.

Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

The reason my food bank is vegan is because I can't pay for animal products in good conscience.

Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but, its not who you are.

It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.

Here is my personal opinion about prostitution. If men knew how to do it, they wouldn't have to pay for it.

As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.