Pay Quotes - Page 39

• Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Average, Comes And Goes, Persons

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• By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions and earning equal pay that everyone's attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the '70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Home, Equal Pay

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

  William Safire

  Taken, Differences, United States

  "Tar Baby Strikes Again" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. November 13, 1986.

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• Here's a pointer culled from the careers of men who have attained notable success: Don't sit in your office during the hours prospects can be seen. Do your office work before or after the hours during which possible customers can be reached. This may mean adding an hour or two quite often to your day's work; but in times like this particularly, the securing of a satisfactory amount of business through the expenditure of an extra hour or two a day is not an unreasonable price to pay.

  B. C. Forbes

  Mean, Men, Office Work

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• Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not yet followed the example set by a number of progressive corporations. I don't know of a single company that has abandoned vacations for wage earners after having tried the experiment. But I do know many that are delighted with the fruits they have gathered. Under some of the plans vacations with pay must be earned by good behavior, punctuality, etc.... The best results have come where the treatment has been regarded as most liberal.

  B. C. Forbes

  Vacation, Numbers, Majority

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• You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.

  Kurt Tucholsky

  Advice, Quality, Coffins

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• I would not pre-pay. I would invest instead and let the investments cover it.

  Dave Ramsey

  Investing, Investment

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• First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in analyzing those facts will pay off in better performance somehow measured. (By this logic, cure for cancer must have been found by 1955).

  Paul Samuelson

  Cancer, Common Sense, Effort

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• The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades. A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool's game.

  Warren Buffett

  Games, Long, Guy

  "Here are the 6 things Warren Buffett considers when making an investment" by Jeremy Schwartz, www.businessinsider.com. March 14, 2015.

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• Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.

  W. Edwards Deming

  School, Quota, Incentives

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• In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end our disastrous trade policies. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And we have to fight for pay equity for women.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Fighting, Views

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• In a world in which most investors appear interested in figuring out how to make money every second and chase the idea du jour, there's also something validating about the message that it's okay to do nothing and wait for opportunities to present themselves or to pay off. That's lonely and contrary a lot of the time, but reminding yourself that that's what it takes is quite helpful.

  Seth Klarman

  Lonely, Opportunity, Ideas

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• In the financial world it tends to be misleading to state, "There is no free lunch." Rather the more meaningful comment is, "Somebody has to pay for lunch."

  Martin J. Whitman

  Meaningful, Lunch, Investing

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• I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.

  Lou Holtz

  Hate, Believe, Accountability

  "Lou Holtz Coaching Conservatives to Victory". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. April 13, 2010.

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• Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.

  Noam Chomsky

  United States, Example, Way

  Interview with Michael Nevradakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.

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• There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Struggle, Hero

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• Any fool can buy a company; just pay enough

  Henry Kravis

  Fool, Enough, Company

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• I do sit-ups and push-ups at home, and that's about it. I have a gym card, but I never go there. It's a front. I pay for the membership every couple of years, thinking I'll be embarrassed enough to go. But every time I go, there's like people twice my age that look twice as good!

  Rachael Ray

  Couple, Home, Thinking

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• Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

  Philip Sidney

  Generosity, Giving, Delight

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.130

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• The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day for the men, and that was pay day, and one for the women, and that was rent day. As for the children, every day was theirs, just as it should be in every corner of the world.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Children, Men, One Day

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• When people in organizations feel too secure, it's because there aren't any significant outcomes as a result of what they do. Whatever you do, nothing much different happens. This also means there are no important pay-offs if you risk by innovating. As there are no rewards for taking risks, then there's no sense of push in that institution's culture.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Mean, Organization, People

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• It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.

  Prince Philip

  Moon, Thinking, Way

  On the U.S. Apollo program at the press conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 1968. "The Reality of Monarchy" by Andrew Duncan, 1970.

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• He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Two, Done, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.22, Nayika Publishing

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• Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.

  Sallust

  Sacrifice, Hair, Offering

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• I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Religious, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2905, Delphi Classics

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