Compensation Quotes

• I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Source
  • Governor
  • Compensation

• The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.

  

  Rene Cassin
  • Political
  • Influence
  • Individual

• I'm getting on top of the plate like I did last year. I'm just trying to compensate and make adjustments. Running, I'm pretty much about half speed. That's about all I got.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Running

• 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
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • inspirational

• Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Up
  • Women
  • Winning

• 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 Brooks & Dunn
  • Cowboy
  • Tattoo
  • Compensation

• Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Different
  • Artist
  • Laws

• 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
  • Long
  • Game
  • Hours

• The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Things
  • Ability
  • Compensation

• We continue to argue with our European colleagues about the importance of fairness when it comes to compensation and transitional regimes for sugar and for bananas and for other commodities . . . .

  

  Jack Straw
  • Fairness
  • Regimes
  • Commodities

• It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

  

  J. A. Spender
  • Future
  • Present
  • Promise

• If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Learning
  • Cheating
  • Compensation

• If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Learning
  • Cheating
  • Compensation

• To be sure, faster growth in nominal labor compensation does not necessarily portend higher inflation.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Growth
  • Labor
  • Inflation

• You're so privileged to be there, you feel like you have to complain about something just so you don't have to think about how lucky you are. It's kind of over compensation, I think, when I'm feeling generous about it. Or, when I'm not, I think maybe it's just the basic requirement of being a teenager, feeling like you have to be perfect every time, and when you have an algebra test or a hangnail, the rest of the war-torn, poverty-stricken, deformed world ought to turn its attention to you.

  

  Rachel DeWoskin
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Generous

• The only compensation for land is land.

  

  Winona LaDuke
  • Land
  • Compensation

• 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
  • Law
  • Wealth
  • Position

• 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
  • Law
  • Spiritual
  • Understand

• 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
  • Real
  • Respect
  • Honor

• Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

  

  Cary Grant
  • Job
  • Demand
  • Compensation

• We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Spiritual
  • Invoke
  • Material Lack

• The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Strong
  • Passion
  • Existence

• The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.

  

  Edward William Lane
  • Government
  • Taken
  • Taxes

• People who have been made stateless by military occupation are entitled to repatriation, and then the question is to which state, or to what polity or area? Those who have had their goods taken away are entitled to compensation of some kind. These are basic international laws.

  

  Judith Butler
  • People
  • Laws
  • Repatriation

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